NAFFAC embarks on membership drive

Tayo Oladipupo

The President General of the National Association of Air Freight Forwarders and Consolidators (NAFFAC), Bakare Adeyinka has said that the association was looking towards amending its constitution in order to accommodate a large number of people into it.

Adeyinka who spoke to newsmen in Lagos recently added that the group was not ready to neither admit non-professionals into the association nor lure them with money.

He insisted that the group would get its membership through selling laudable ideas to the right persons in the profession and not people who have nothing to do with freight forwarding.

According to him, plans are in top gear to establish the presence of the association in other chapters, adding that Calabar chapter is under re-engineering.

Speaking further, the PG said that the association was consulting agencies to facilitate the training of members of the association to be better professionals.

“It is not about spending money, it is about spending your idea on what you really want to do and how you want to do it. I can’t go and bring an Okada rider to come and register as a freight forwarder, we need to bring those who are professionals and those who know what they are doing in the business to come and register with us and the best way for you to do this is for you to sell your idea and let them know what a freight forwarder should do and what it takes to be a freight forwarder.

“Probably, we might need to amend some sections of our constitution to take care of some of these things and to accommodate a larger number of people and that will be done and I am very sure we will achieve that. It is better for us to have new idea, new blood instead of us rotating the usual.

“But what we are doing now is that we are re-engineering the Calabar chapter any moment from now, the port-Harcourt chapter, then Apapa, Tincan chapters will come on board.
By the special grace of God, probably before December, all these things will come on board.

“Training is something we are taking seriously. We are already talking to some agencies, asking them if there is any other thing that they are doing that they will want our members to get knowledge from according to their operation and many of them have given us their words,” he said.