.National President, ANLCA; Mr Tony Nwabunike(R), with his counterpart at NAGAFF; Mr Increase Uche during a visit to NAGAFF last week
Notwithstanding the controversies over its Board of Trustees (BoT) and the many court cases, the Association of Nigerian Customs Licensed Agents (ANLCA) has fixed December 16 for its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of new members of its board.
To confirm its seriousness, Chairman of the Association Electoral Commission (ASECO) of ANLCA; Barr. Raymond Onyimba, told our correspondent last week that, about 15 persons have so far indicated interests in becoming members of the new BoT, at an election which he said is slated for Imo state.
He informed that the essence of the AGM is not necessarily because of the board election but said the constitution states that the election of the board can only take place during the AGM, while adding that there will be opportunity for e- voting for members who will not be at the venue physically.
According to him, “it is at the section of the AGM that a meeting for election of the board will take place, not necessarily that the AGM is for election of board members, just that the constitution states that board election will only take place during the AGM because it is the members of the association as a whole that will be voting for the BoT”,
“This is unlike electing the president, those that will be voting for the president and NECOM are members of the chapters , so we are fixing it tentatively for 16th of this month, all actions are being put in place, the venue has been secured, accommodation has been secured and a lot of people have bought forms to fill into the position of the BoT, we have got more applicants more than the numbers required for the board, because what we need statutorily is nine members, so we have got more people up to 15 members who are ready to go into that election, so we are still working on that, because it is very tight for us”, he said.
“Also, because of the COVID 19, we are equally looking at where we cannot cluster our people in one particular hall, because the Governor of Imo state is going to play host to us, so we don’t want to cluster much people in a hall, so there is also opportunity for people to vote through e-voting”, he said.
Reacting to the proposed AGM and election of the BoT, the factional chairman of the board, Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha in a chat with our correspondent stated that he is not perturbed about the AGM/election of the board.
“I am aware of whatever they are doing, let them go ahead and be deceiving themselves, no problem”, he simply said.
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