Few months after the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria(CRFFN) included a whopping N100million for the acquisition of a bonded warehouse in Anambra state, the council has denied knowledge of the sum.
Shipping Position Daily recalls that, in a budget submitted to the National Assembly recently by the CRFFN, a sum of N100million was added which according to the council would be for the acquisition of a bonded warehouse by the council in Ozubulu, Anambra state.
Since this was discovered, many stakeholders have kicked against it, even as some accused the Registrar of complicity.
But reacting to this, the Registrar of CRFFN, Barrister Samuel Nwakaohu, told our correspondent in Lagos on Wednesday after the 23rd meeting of the council that the amount was added in error.
Explaining further he said, that procurement of a bonded warehouse is not part of the mandate of the council and therefore it has nothing to do with them.
He added that the Council is going to ignore that part of the budget.
He said: "On the issue is Ozobulu bonded terminal project, it was added in the budget in error it has nothing to do with us and it is not part of our mandate"
"I know nothing about it, we have seen it we have discussed it and we are going to ignore it".
The Registrar said that another way to go about that is through corrigendum which according to him is a very long process.
"I am not aware of it, it is dead, another way to do it is through what we call corrigendum which is a long process and I don't want to go that way"
Nwakaohu reiterated that the project was added in the budget in error.
"I am sure that thing was put there in error it has nothing to do with us. The bonded warehouse has nothing to do with us"
"Some people had even called me names about that saying I am a fraudster. Whereas I know nothing about that", he concluded.
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