Our Reporter
Awka (Precise Post) – Governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Piano has congratulated Honourable Chudi Offodile on his appointment as an Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
Precise Post recalls that Offodile was on Wednesday, announced as the new NIMASA Executive Director in charge of Finance and Administration following the reorganisation of the agency’s top management.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinub, on Friday in Awka, the state government said that “Offodile is eminently deserving of the appointment. He is, in fact, worth everything in gold.”
Offodile, a lawyer, political analyst and author, represented the Awka Federal Constituency in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2005 and was simultaneously chairman of the Sub Committee on Gas and Chairman of the Special Committee on Joint Venture Oil Operations, later heading the Committee on Public Petitions.
According to the statement: “Though he left the legislature 15 years ago, his colleagues and officials of the National Assembly speak nostalgically about him on account of the brilliance, commitment and vibrancy he displayed.
“Having discharged his duties with aplomb, he set a standard by which a lot of his colleagues are still judged in matters of transparency, probity and commitment to the common good as well as legislative delivery.