Gambia Ports Authority Friday paid twenty-million-dalasi dividend to government through the ministry of finance and Economic Affair.
The ceremony brought together GPA senior officials and officials from ministry of finance including minister of finance Mambury Njie.
GPA managing director Ousman Jobarteh described the ceremony as another milestone GPA’s history as he said “for paying an amount of twenty million dalasi to government through the ministry of finance and economic.”
According to him, the payment of the D20M was based on the GPA Audited Financial statement for the year ended December 2018.
He said one of the whole marks of this event today is coming at a time when the performance of the Port is improving as expected although with some challenges in term of infrastructural improvement which is required.
He said the efficiency of the port has significantly improve, which has made us proud and is about determination, team work and commitment by my staff.
He also expressed profound gratitude to the Board of directors of Gambia Port Authority for their foresight and guide provided to the management of the port. He said commended the government of the Gambia for the continue support providing to GPA been a catalectic for the socio-economic development. He added that port efficiency are directly translated to affordability in term of commodities. So we are committed and alien to our mandate to performance our work to expectation.
Alieu Secka Chief Executive officer of GCCI said that the payment of this D20M dividend to government by GPA was a pleasure to be associated with this very important handing over this cheque .
He said for the last 12months GPA continue to tackle the challenges, and also to continue made some giant step in providing the require services with it mandates. He said commended the previous board diligently to ensure that the future of the port is sustain not only today but the future.
He also assured that GPA will continue to work with government to achieve to it desire goal tobuild the capacity of the port.
In receiving the cheque on behalf of the government the Minister of Finance and Economic Affair Hon. Mambury Njie who was full of joys about the payment of this dividend to government thanked GPA management for this giant strives.
He recalled back that last year GPA paid D5M dividend to government and this year D20M dividend to government, as he put it a very big achievement made by GPA.
He said this has shown that GPA has really demonstrate its commitment and has performance beyond expectation. He assured GPA that the ministry of finance will continue to support GPA, and we are aware of the natural bottleneck but we will work together to ensure that the port authority operation live up to expectation demand for international trade.
