There are indications that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi may soon inaugurate the Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the minister has invited all the freight forwarding associations to a crucial meeting in Abuja.
In a recent interview with Shipping Position Daily, Founder of National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam had hinted that the inauguration of the board would be performed by the minister in two weeks time.
The inauguration of the Council has been delayed for several months following controversies that trailed elections into the governing Council of CRFFN.
A copy of the invitation by the minister to the stakeholders was sent to Shipping Position Daily on Wednesday. The meeting is to hold in Abuja on Tuesday, October 30, 2018.
The rather short invitation was signed by the Registrar of the Council, Sir Mike Jukwe and it reads” On the directive of the Honourable Minister, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, it is with the highest sense of responsibility and humility that you are invited to a meeting with him as follows: Date: Tuesday, 30th October, 2018T, Time: 11am prompt, Venue: Conference Hall, 8th Floor, Federal Ministry of Transportation Headquarters, Central Area, Abuja. “Further details will be communicated to you in due course”.
It may be recalled that the Federal Government, had few months ago appointed its own nominees to the Governing Council, leaving the freight forwarders to conduct election of the practitioners into the Council from whom the Chairman of the Governing Council is to be elected.
Consequently, the CRFFN in July conducted election for the practitioners where 15 freight forwarders were elected to represent the professionals in the council, even as the CRFFN management went ahead to release the date and timetable for a retreat, inauguration and subsequent election of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman of the Council which. This was eventually postponed indefinitely on the order of the Minister.
Shipping Position Daily recalls that the tenure of the former members of the CRFFN Governing Council expired since 2012 and the council had been without a Governing Council since then, thereby bringing activities of that critical sector of the industry to a halt with a devastating effect on the practitioners who have been without training and regulation since then.
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