Apparently excited about their recent elevation as recognised into the council after two years of struggling to be accredited by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) two out of the three recently accredited freight forwarding associations are set to hold celebration parties for their new status.
Apparently excited about their recent elevation as recognised into the council after two years of struggling to be accredited by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) two out of the three recently accredited freight forwarding associations are set to hold celebration parties for their new status.
Two of the newly accredited associations; Association of Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (AREFFN) and the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) have confirmed to Shipping Position Daily that they are going to have an elaborate party with their members to celebrate the achievement.
Factional president of the NCMDLCA Chief Festus Ejiofor told our correspondent that the association plans to have a party on September 11, while the National President of AREFFN, Dr. Frank Ukor confirmed that it is going to have its party on September 19, 2012.
Dr. Ukor who spoke with our correspondent after the National Executive Meeting of the association in Lagos said that “the party is for us to appreciate God for the accreditation, there is need for us to celebrate”.
Dr. Ukor also said that the next line of action for AREFFN is for it to have adequate representation in the council. He explained that if none of its members were nominated, the association will sponsor one of its own into the next coming elections into the CRFFN.
“If no nomination is made, we will get some of our members to contest” he said.
Meanwhile, freight forwarders reactions have continued to trail the recent accreditation of the three associations by the CRFFN.
According to some of them who spoke with Shipping Position Daily, there is need for the associations to represent the interest of agents and assist them in their struggle against the unfriendly attitudes of shipping companies and customs officers at the port.
One of them, Mr. Olubukola Olukala said that, “the primary objective they should be having is the message they want to pass across, we should know their goals, and then we will know if they are there for us or against us because most of them are going for their personal pockets in order to be free to go into Customs office and do their jobs easily and come out, and not thinking about the people that are outside which at first was the main reason for setting up such association”
He charged the associations to work hand-in-hand with the two earlier accredited associations, and that they should not hinder one another from doing their jobs, but they should work as a team.
Another freight forwarder, Mr. Akin Igbaroola said that “they should not be like other associations that were floated and which died at the embryo stage, which is at the stage of registration alone, they could not perform and had no zeal to confront the Customs because some of the leaders that floated some of the agencies are corrupt”.
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