Barely 24 hours to the National Executive Committee (NECOM) election of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) in Enugu, one of the contenders to the office of the National President of the association, Hon. Tony Iju Nwabunike has promised to stop remittances from chapters to fund the national secretariat if elected.
Nwabunike who made this promise at his campaign round off at the Murtala Mohammed Airport chapter of the association in Lagos recently said that he would ensure that the remittances stopped within the first one year and six months into his administration.
While refusing to give details on how he would achieve this, he however posited that ANLCA had what it takes to take care of its national secretariat.
In his word,” I don’t want to tell you how we are going to do it but give me one and half years in this place, even the remittances from the chapters to the National Secretariat will stop. We have all what it takes to take care of our secretariat. If this chapter (MMIA chapter) can have a big secretariat like this and if this chapter can be paying salaries like this, the national secretariat should pay its own salaries and take care of chapters and take care of their staff”.
On the ANLCA’s feud with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Nwabunike observed that being the pioneer Chairman of CRFFN and a member of the ANLCA Board of Trustees aspiring to become ANLCA President, if elected, he would seek advice from the association’s Legal Adviser on the issue, adding that they need to proffer a solution to the feud.
“If it is because they don’t want us to collect POF, we will talk about it, the National Executive Council (NEC) has to revisit the issue to take appropriate decision on that. But I am assuring you, the decision that we are going to take must be in line with the NEC and the great association”, he said.
Recalling that he actually brought the five registered freight forwarding associations to become members of the CRFFN as the Chairman of the CRFFN Governing Council, he promised to bring them back together again if elected for them to speak with one voice and get the government to listen to them and take them serious and for them to have an effective movement to solve their problems.
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