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Home » Clearing Agents Protest Alleged Customs Cabal At PTML

Clearing Agents Protest Alleged Customs Cabal At PTML

by Joshua
May 17, 2012
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The mutual understanding and peaceful business environment that is usually enjoyed at the Ports and Terminal Multiservice Limited (PTML) command of the Nigeria Custom Service has once again been disrupted as freight forwarders operating at the terminal and its offshoot at Mile2  have protested against the customs for allegedly  deliberating frustrating the agents.

The mutual understanding and peaceful business environment that is usually enjoyed at the Ports and Terminal Multiservice Limited (PTML) command of the Nigeria Custom Service has once again been disrupted as freight forwarders operating at the terminal and its offshoot at Mile2  have protested against the customs for allegedly  deliberating frustrating the agents.
The freight forwarders had come out in large numbers carrying placards and specifically requesting for the removal of the officer in charge of the PTML Mile 2 vehicle terminal who is simply known as OC Bose, for allegedly treating freight forwarders inhumanly.
Some of the freight forwarders who spoke to our correspondent at the terminal alleged that the officer, in collaboration with some senior officers at the Mile 2 terminal have formed a sort of cabal at the terminal and that this is soiling the good rapport the agents enjoy with the command.
When contacted, an executive of the PTML Chapter of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) Mr. George Okafor told Shipping Position Daily that OC Bose has practically fashioned herself to be a Customs Area Controller at the Mile 2 terminal and that,  “the worst of the situation is that when a whole DC gives you value at PTML here, when you get to mile 2, she will send you back to go and get confirmation of the value, she will tell you that the value has been compromised”.
Mr. Okafor explained that it is as a result of this recurring action that drove the agents to organize the protest on Monday. “Our boys said they cannot take it again and we had a demonstration that the woman should leave, not only her, there are other people there, but her own was the major one, we are doing it one after the other”.
Mr. Okafor alleged that there is a cabal operating at the Mile 2 terminal and that they seem untouchable, he said that at every stakeholders’ meeting held with the Customs Area Controller, the case of the woman has been brought up, but that nothing has been done about it. According to him, while delivery of cargoes can be done at the PTML RoRo terminal within 24hours, it is not obtainable at the mile2 terminal.
When contacted by Shipping Position Daily correspondent, the Public Relations Officer of Customs PTML Chapter, Mr. Steve Okonmah explained that the situation was as a result of a breakdown in communication, even as he assured that the contending issues are already being addressed by the CAC.
Okonmah told our correspondent that the CAC had held a closed door meeting with the executives of all the freight forwarding associations at the chapter and that he has promised to address the case.
One of the “proactive steps the CAC has taken is that, a staff officer has been sent to the Mile2 terminal to bridge the communication gap between the agents and the officers and to also ensure that there won’t be need to send agents back here for reconfirmation of value”.
Okonmah also explained that four Assistant Comptrollers from the command have been sent down to the mile 2 terminal to assist and to further ensure that the backlog of cargoes at the terminal is cleared.
“Everywhere is at peace now, you know that when there is a change, there is meant to be resistance, the officer in question is acting according to directives and she cannot just be removed”, Okonmah assured.
He said that PTML terminal is a hub of vehicles and that more than 50 percent of the vehicles coming to the terminal are stemmed down to be received at the Mile2 terminal and that this has been one of the cause of the restlessness.


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