The management of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) has denied any knowledge or involvement in the physical attack on the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, at the National Assembly.

Usman had petitioned the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, alleging that she was physically attacked by hoodlums at the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday.

She claimed that her attack was sponsored by the Chairman of Messrs Ocean Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL), Captain Wells Okunbo, apparently over the decision of the NPA on the Secure Anchorage issue after attending investigative hearing in the Assembly.

She said she was only saved a bigger assault by her security agents who took her into Senator Danjuma Goje’s office where she waited for the hoodlums to leave.

Reacting to the allegation, Commodore Chuma Adogu (rtd) said the allegation was false and a figment of someone’s imagination, saying the Chairman of OMSL, Captain Wells Okunbo, who he described as a fine gentleman who has served the nation diligently in various capacities, could not have sponsored thugs to attack the NPA boss.

Adogu noted that on that Tuesday, there was no sign of such alleged attach or rented crowd in the premises of the National Assembly to warrant such allegation, maintaining that OMSL management came to the National Assembly just like other invited organisations on the day of the investigation by the Joint Committee of the Senate investigating the Secure Anchorage Area (SAA).

He said: “On the day of the investigation at the National Assembly, we came like other invited organisations and we never came with any thug or rented crowd to harass anybody, much less the Managing Director of NPA.

“The security at the premises of the National Assembly was very tight as everybody was routinely checked and controlled while entering, thus forestalling any rented crowd or thugs from gaining entrance.

“We came before the panel and presented our position in the SAA without nursing hatred against anyone.

“Let me make it clear to the Nigerian public that OMSL is a responsible corporate organisation with a lot of Nigerians working as its employees.

“We are mindful of this and never can we trade it away.

“I repeat, we do not have a hand nor did our chairman sponsor any group of thugs to attack Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman.

“We see this as part of the attempts to discredit OMS and distract attention from the main issue, which is already with the Senate.”

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