There are strong indications that the automotive policy will soon be subjected to public hearing by the National Assembly to avail stakeholders the opportunity of contributing to discussions on the pros and cons of the policy that was put in place last year by the federal government.
Sources told Auto Port Weekly that the public hearing may likely hold in June.
According to our impeccable source, the insecurity challenges faced in the country has hampered the hearing, but there are possibilities that it will hold next month.
There are strong indications that the automotive policy will soon be subjected to public hearing by the National Assembly to avail stakeholders the opportunity of contributing to discussions on the pros and cons of the policy that was put in place last year by the federal government.
Sources told Auto Port Weekly that the public hearing may likely hold in June.
According to our impeccable source, the insecurity challenges faced in the country has hampered the hearing, but there are possibilities that it will hold next month.
He said that the automotive policy was hurriedly put together without stakeholders’ input, thus there is the need to bring the relevant players to make their contributions, suggestions and observations.
Also corroborating the impeding public hearing to our correspondent, President National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF); Chief Eugene Nweke confirmed that the public hearing will hold in June.
Nweke said that the Maritime Advocacy and Action Group (MAAG), spearheaded by Alhaji Alhassan Dantata will also make its contributions at the hearing.
Nweke said that there is need for stakeholders to x-ray the failure of first automobile policy in Nigeria and also offer suggestions to make the new policy succeed.
According to him, the automobile policy was hurriedly put in place without inputs from the relevant players in the industry.
He said MAAG has suggested that there is supposed to have a long term automobile development plan that can be endorsed by the National Assembly, because according to him, the automotive policy is of national concern.
The NAGAFF president noted that, "the automotive policy is a national issue and not just for government whereby after four, five, eight years it will collapse or start all over".
"We must go back and get it right as it were in America , there must be a long term development plan "
"We are going to the National Assembly because they will call for a public hearing on the automotive policy."
"A public hearing is underway because it is a national issue, it has nothing to do with the Customs, because they are just an arm of government, want to know the impact on the policy on the economy"
“We will like to know why the first automobile policy in Nigeria failed and what we need to make the new one succeed”, he stressed.
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