To ensure seamless cargo clearance at the ports, the Africa Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics of Nigeria has dragged security agencies at the port to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, over illegalities perpetrated by security agents at the ports.
The National President of APFFLON, Frank Ogunojemite, dropped this hint in a chat with Financial Street during the inauguration and restructuring of some chapters on Wednesday, at the APFFLON secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos State.
Ogunojemite said the group was poised to fight for members of the group, except the ones not brought to the notice of the association.
He explained that some letters had been sent to the IGP over anomalies of governmemt agencies.
“Those things we want to do differently are what we have started doing. For instance, there are lots of issues with alerts and I have a lot of information. The present IGP is the one that unveiled APFFLON when he was the AIG Maritime in Kam Salem House and we have put a letter across to him on this issue.
“In terms of Customs, the FOU Task Force causing issues on the roads, we were part of the advocacy that said they don’t need to come close to where ports are because that shows they don’t trust one another. If an officer releases a consignment and, not long after, another operative impounds it, what does that mean?” he said.
Meanwhile, Apapa, TinCan and Ikorodu chapters of the association were inaugurated while the airport chapter was restructured.
At Tincan, Godfrey Nwosu emerged the chairman, and Ayeni Adekunle his vice; in Apapa, Ibrahim Hassan was inaugurated as chairman while Martin Adimonye emerged the vice.
At Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Victor Shotayo emerged the chairman and Marley Kudu the vice; while in Ikorodu, Ismail Adeniyi is the chairman and Okey Nneke the vice.
