As mixed reactions continue to trail the appointment of a six member Governing Council for the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) by President Muhammadu Buhari recently, stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry has faulted the appointment of Otunba Moshood Tijani.
Although the stakeholders agreed that he was the only maritime practitioners among the six man appointees, they however criticized the fact that Otunba Tijani had earlier served as a Council member in the CRFFN thereby making him ineligible for the appointment.
It was the founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam who first pointed to the fact that Tijani had earlier served in the Council on two occasions before his recent appointment wondering if the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Act setting up CRFFN allowed him to sit in the Council for the third consecutive time.
Collaborating the views of Dr. Aniebonam, the National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr. Kayode Farinto observed that the appointment not only was against the spirit of the nation’s constitution, it also flouted the Act establishing CRFFN.
“Not only does it work against the spirit of the constitution, it even flouted the Act itself. I don’t want to personalize it so that you will not say Kayode is mentioning anybody but on the whole, the appointment was faulty”, he said.
Reacting to the development, Otunba Moshood Tijani in a telephone interview with our correspondent said that he was surprised that people were actually kicking against his appointment as he was not the one that appointed himself into the Council.
He added that he was on his own when his name was mentioned as one of the appointees into the Council by President Buhari saying that he would not say more than he had said until after their inauguration by the President.
When asked when their inauguration would be, he simply replied,” I don’t know”.
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