Following Wednesday’s postponement of the election of practitioners into the governing council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the leadership of the five registered freight forwarding associations at a meeting yesterday in Lagos expressed shock at the sudden postponement without any reason.
The associations which made their feelings known in a press statement at the end of the meeting described the action of the CRFFN sole administration by not taking the associations and the contestants into confidence before taking such huge decision as disrespect to the stakeholders in a democracy.
The meeting however resolved to await further information within reasonable time from the CRFFN and the supervising Ministry in order for them to know their next line of action even as they urged the authorities concerned to avoid actions that would throw the entire electioneering process into disrepute.
While pledging their continued support for the CRFFN administration in the interest of the regulatory agency in particular and the total logistics supply chain management, they vowed to remain united in ensuring that the arrangement they have collectively agreed on remains sacrosanct and hope that relevant authorities would respect the associations feelings which was to ensure that they had an inclusive Council.
They urged their teeming supporters to keep the peace while the Ministry of Transportation was given the time to do the needful as soon as possible in the interest of all concerned and the country in general.
The leadership of the various associations equally re-emphasized that CRFFN was a regulatory agency who has the mandate to regulate and control all freight forwarding practitioners in Nigeria, accordingly it was mandatory for all practitioners to be duly registered with the Council and any of the accredited freight forwarding associations of the Council noting that freedom of association cannot translate to disobedience to rule of law and order in a democratic society.
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