… Says Council to wave backlogs of annual subscription
The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Association of Igbo Maritime Practitioners in Nigeria (ASIMPIN), Chief Peter Obih has said that 95 per cent of Igbos in the freight forwarding industry in Nigeria are registered with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN).
Obih who made this assertion in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently recalled that he was the Chairman, Registration Committee in the first and second Governing Council of the CRFFN adding that he made sure that everybody was registered then.
He said, “. I used my position to make that all the people in this our industry were registered then. The problem we are having now is backlog of annual subscription. If you calculate nine or ten years back, the amount to be paid as backlog of annual subscription is huge. We will discuss it at the Council and wave so many things for people to be able to cope.
“It is not that they are not registered, they owe backlog of annual subscription but we can zero it to a particular amount so that it will be easy for people to pay.
“But having seen what we are suffering in the industry now and you now tell somebody that he owes for ten years, you are driving him away the more. Where will he get it to pay? If you have anybody that has not been registered, that was why I said 95 percent are registered but that remaining 5 percent, if they want to register, they can still register but we have to discuss it in the CRFFN Governing Council meeting.”
He disclosed that ASIMPIN was formed to assist the Igbo freight forwarding practitioners especially the younger ones that were coming up saying, “I am too sure that the only thing that is giving us little problem is that the people you believe that you are working for don’t regard you for anything.”
“That is Igbos for you but I don’t hold them to that because I know it is our nature. But I am assuring them that by next year, ASIMPIN will be what it supposed to be and from there, they will all be sure of what they are doing in the industry”, he assured.
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