Freight Forwarders to Boycott CRFFN Governing Council Elections

By Segun OLADIPUPO |

The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) has described the constitution of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) as erratic and hasty.

To this end, the body stated that it would not participate in the Council’s upcoming elections into its governing council.

The National Public Relations Officer of NCMDLCA, Raph Agbogu told our correspondent in Lagos, that customs licensed agents are not the groups of people that should be regulated by the Council.

Agbogu, a factional PRO of the NCMDLCA, stated that truck pushers, tanker drivers, Nigerian Railway Corporation are the bodies that fall under the purview of the regulation of CRFFN.

“We are trade procedure experts, when it comes to cargo, we classify, we interpret, we treat and based on our classification, the customs collect their revenues.

“On the issue of CRFFN, it is a council formulated in haste. The truck pushers you see on the road is a freight forwarder, the tanker driver that load petroleum products from Lagos to North is a freight forwarder.

“Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) was constituted in error; they are not basically for the sea ports.

“The Nigerian Railway Corporation is a freight forwarder; it is supposed to be part of the CRFFN regulated agencies.

“So, whatever they are doing, these ones are supposed to be inculcated into it. That is what we are doing, we need holistic approach because a lot of things are going wrong,” he said