A freight forwarder, Mr Lucky Amiwero has advised the Federal Government to assess the implementation of destination inspection in Nigeria in the last seven years.
Amiwero said in Lagos that the assessment would enable government to determine whether the Nigeria Customs Service could handle it alone.
A freight forwarder, Mr Lucky Amiwero has advised the Federal Government to assess the implementation of destination inspection in Nigeria in the last seven years.
Amiwero said in Lagos that the assessment would enable government to determine whether the Nigeria Customs Service could handle it alone.
The freight forwarder, who is also a factional president of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents gave the advice against the backdrop of claims by service providers that the customs could not handle destination inspection alone if the scheme was handed over to customs.
According to him, “the problem is that the service providers may be right or wrong, but they, however, have a contract and the issue of handing over has a clause.
“The service providers have been handling the process and recording success on it.
“Also, all the tools are in their hands, so we need to be careful in saying that their assertion is wrong,’’ Amiwero said.
He advised the Federal Government not to handle the matter as a political issue, but as an economic issue with far reaching implications if handled wrongly.
The freight forwarder called for an audit committee to audit the machines and assess the capacity of the customs to handle destination inspection.
“In Ghana, when such an issue came up, the government had to extend the contract of the service providers by another five years after an initial 10-year period.
“Nigeria could borrow a leaf from Ghana, if it becomes necessary”, he advised.
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