The National Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Nigerian Transport Commission (NTC) Bill, which has been passed by the National Assembly.
As part of its statutory provision, the NTC Bill seeks to transmute the Nigerian Shippers Council to the National Transport Commission.
President of the NACCIMA, Iyalode Alaba Lawanson, who made the plea last week when the association paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) in Apapa, Lagos, also lauded the Executive Secretary of the Council; Mr Hassan Bello, for taking the council to an enviable height.
She described the recent re-appointment of Bello as the Chief Executive Officer of the Council as a reaffirmation of his diligence to work.
The NACCIMA President also urged President Buhari to complement the efforts of the Nigerian Shippers Council in seeing the NTC Bill through.
“I want to use this opportunity to call Mr. President, His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, to kindly sign the bill for the transmission of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council into the Nigerian Transport Commission, It was s good fight that you fought at the Shippers’ Council to get the bill to this level, congratulations”, she said.
“We congratulate you for your reappointment as the ES of Shippers’ Council, it is an affirmation of your consistent diligence to your work that you have continued to show in the management of the Council, we are partners in progress and we have to work together for the good of the shipping business and to move the economy forward. NACCIMA commend the activities of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council and the agency responsible for cargo protection and ports regulation”, she added.
She seized the opportunity of the visit to intimate the Shippers Council boss of NACCIMA’s bold move towards export. She explained that the association will need the Council in this regards.
“Consequently the association will establish the NACCIMA trade group on export, we want to go into this export full time, because it is the only one that can take the place of oil that we all ventured into and it is no longer viable” she affirmed, even as she added that both NACCIMA and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council have common ground for collaboration.
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