Trainings Very Crucial

“If you don’t train them, don’t blame them”

Maritime stakeholders after intense deliberations at a two day conference on development have reemphasized the need to train and retrain personnel if the maritime industry, the fulcrum of world commerce is to continue to spin and evolve.

The need to upgrade and re-equip the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron, the urgent need to attract, retain and sustain competent persons with the requisite qualifications and training to teach and groom cadets at MAN was also reechoed. To achieve this, the right incentives must be put in place, otherwise such persons will be snatched by other institutions-local/foreign.

Government agencies were told to ensure that the right persons are sent for trainings as at when due. According to a speaker at the conference:

“training should not be seen as welfare nor a means to appease. Trainings are not picnics, sightseeing or opportunity to idle away, the cost to government/country from trainings are huge, trainees must show evidence by improving on their jobs after trainings”

Hopes are high that decisions/recommendations from recent conferences will be implemented, unlike in the past when such efforts are either ignored or consigned to shelves.