CRFFN Governing Board Chairman sues for peace among freight forwarders for industry growth

The Chairman, Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Alhaji Abubakar Tsanni has sued for harmonious relationship among all the registered freight forwarding associations in Nigeria.

He also admonished the associations to close ranks to avoid primordial sentiments rocking the freight forwarding industry.

Tsanni gave the admonition in Lagos, during a press briefing even as he assured that the Council would create a harmonious working relationship amongst operators in the industry as well as create the needed synergy between the Council and operators including all agencies of government for effective service delivery.

He therefore called on all the operators to leverage on the sincere goodwill of the Council to exhaust internal dispute resolution mechanism of the Council towards resolving any trade or administrative disputes among the practitioners, agencies of government and the Council in order to avoid unnecessary litigations.

In his words,” I assure all that every interest shall be protected under due process and the law. Members of staff are rest assured of the Council’s commitment to their wellbeing and be certain that every entitlement owed them would be paid. In view of this, we demand loyalty and commitment at your duty posts.

“As you know well, change is always difficult to adopt but once you begin to change the way you think, you will begin to inspire innovation that will help you to manifest greatness in your life. Truly, we can do all these if we all desire to create a new Nigeria. We are more than the estimation of ourselves in the eyes of the world”.

The Chairman added that he was aware of the need to strengthen and increase government revenues, the Council would carefully peruse through existing domestic laws to ensure a better deal to both the government and major players in the industry with a view to move to the next level of globally recognized competitive governance saying that the Council would do this with every sense of responsibility, transparency and justice.

He noted that efforts shall be sustained to further create efficiency and coordinate the activities of practitioners in a way that would clean up the operations and its members so as to enable it serve the public better in an efficient and transparent manner in accordance with international best practices.

“Further to this, Council shall ensure that each practitioner is legally eligible to carry out business in and around the ports without incurring demurrage or any form of loss. This we shall ensure to give both parties the opportunity to leverage on the prospects and successes of ‘together we can attitude’ so as to achieve maximum benefits for the general betterment of society.

“Aware of all these, Council shall leverage on the federal government Ease of Doing Business –EDB to bring about new innovations in the conduct of doing business that is obtainable world over. The aim is to promote, protect and preserve the transparent nature of this government at fighting corruption and related financial crimes, real or imagined”, he stated.