The founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has urged the leadership as well as the elders of the embattled Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) to come together to stop what he called avoidable crisis that has engulfed the association.
Aniebonam who made this appeal while speaking at a function in Lagos recently posited that ANLCA was very strategic, adding that “whichever way one wants to look at it, when a vehicle is moving and one of the tyres go down, it won’t be a smooth journey anymore”.
He explained that NAGAFF and ANLCA were the two biggest organizations in the port, saying that if one was doing well and the other was in turmoil, it would be a distraction to the one that was doing well because the two must go together.
“What I am saying now is that I will want to appeal to the leaders of ANLCA to come together and resolve what I consider as a family problem that is now snowballing into the public glare. It is not the best”, he appealed.
He however expressed fear that with the way things are going the situation might bring breach of peace in the ports.
"Secondly, from my strategic point, if something is not done urgently, the way things are going now, I hope there will be no breach of peace at the port level because right now, from what I can see, there are two factions in terms of executives on one side and the executive on the other side. I hope that it does not lead to clash of interest or relevance"
“So, I want to appeal that the President of ANLCA, the members of the Board of Trustees on the opposing sides, for the interest of the young freight forwarders, for the interest of our profession, ANLCA is very strategic, they can adopt the principles of the doctrine of necessity. In conflict resolution, you must learn how to concede certain things for peace to reign. This is very important"
“I want to advocate that while ANLCA people want to nip in the bud this problem that is avoidable, the old ones among them should take a cue from what the founder of NAGAFF has done and I want to believe that you people (journalists) should work on that and let them know.
Some of those people in ANLCA have been in ANLCA for 30 to 40 years, what are they doing there? So, in leadership, you must learn how to make sacrifices”.
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