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‘Why Indigenous Marine Surveyors Lose Lucrative Contracts’
The Centre for
Marine Surveyors of Nigeria (CMSN) has attributed, the inability of Nigerian marine surveyors to secure lucrative contracts from indigenous companies to their preference for foreign firms.
The President of the centre, Mr Bambo Ademiluyi, told newsmen in Lagos that such advantage, which the foreign marine surveyors had, was unjustified as it had nothing to do with technical competence.
According to him, “We have a problem; not with the foreigners, but with Nigerians, the Nigerians, who use the service.
“For instance, I went to submit a bid once to one of the government parastatals (here in Nigeria) because they asked for bids.
“I went there and they said ‘oh! what company is that?’ and I mentioned the name of the (my) company.
“They said ‘Ah! Is it a foreign company?’ I said ‘no. It’s a wholly indigenous company,” he said.