Oluyinka Onigbinde
A freight forwarder and former member of the Council for the Registration of Freight Forwarders (CRFFN) Consultative Forum, Mr Chidi Anthony Opara has described the intervention of CRFFN in the ANLCA crisis as flawed and belated.
Opara in a statement made available to correspondent said the flaw is most likely to hinder the achievement of the set goal.
He stated that the major flaw in the intervention is that the resolution committee going by its composition would not have the authority to enforce its decisions in the event of rejection of such decisions by either of the parties.
Recall that, the governing council of CRFFN last week inaugurated a reconciliation committee to mediate in the lingering crises rocking the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents.
Speaking during the inauguration, the Chairman of CRFFN Governing Council, Alhaji Abubakar Tsanni said that the committee is expected to investigate the underlying causes of the conflicts in the association and give recommendations back to the Council before September 7th, 2022.
He had informed that the committee’ task will be in two phases, adding that the first phase is to determine the factors leading to the crises should be completed within three days, while the final mediation and recommendation should be completed in six days.
He added that resolutions from the committee will be deliberated upon at the next CRFFN governing council meeting scheduled to hold on September 8th, 2022.
But, Mr Opara who stated that he recently called on CRFFN to intervene in the ANLCA crisis, however advised that the committee should rather be a fact finding one, which would collate facts from the Corporate Affairs Commission, the Courts and the Police, examine those facts, recommend a course of action to the CRFFN management.
According to him, based on that recommendation, the CRFFN should make a pronouncement on the situation and immediately enforce that pronouncement.
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According to him, “the belated CRFFN intervention in the four-year-ANLCA crisis is flawed.
“That flaw is most likely to hinder the achievement of the set goal.
“It would be recalled that I recently called on CRFFN to, as a regulator, make pronouncements on the unnecessary and unfortunate situation in ANLCA, one of the associations accredited by it(CRFFN) and douse the tension generated by that ugly situation in the subsector.
“The intervention CRFFN recently announced wasn’t what I had in mind, when I made that call for pronouncement.
“The major flaw in the intervention is that the resolution committee, by whatever other name it may be called, going by its composition would not have the authority to enforce its decisions in the event of rejection of such decisions by either of the parties.
“What I had in mind when making the call for pronouncement was a Committee to be set up by CRFFN, made up of the officials of the regulatory agency, who by their duty schedules have authority to enforce any decisions taken.
“This Committee should be a fact-finding one, who would collate facts from the Corporate affairs Commission, the Courts and the Police, examine those facts, recommend a course of action to the CRFFN management, who would, based on that recommendation, make a pronouncement on the situation and immediately enforce that pronouncement. he said.
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