The foremost freight forwarding association, Association of Nigerian Licenced Customs Agents (ANLCA), will hold election into its National Executive Committee (NECOM), within 90 Days after its Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Disclosing this at a press conference in Lagos, the Acting President of the association, Dr. Kayode Farinto stated that the constitution of the association allows election 90 days before the expiration of the tenure of the current executive.
The Acting President assured that the current NECOM of the association will not spend an extra day in office, adding that the process of conducting the 2023 NECOM Election will be part of the decisions to be taken at the 2023 AGM.
He announced that everyone is free to contest all NECOM executive positions, urging qualified members to dust their documents to contest in any positions of their choice, whenever the ASECO starts the election process.
Dr. Farinto said it was no longer news that the great ANLCA people used to know in the past has been engulfed in crisis in the last four years with all efforts to resolve the crises not yielding any fruitful result yet.
He revealed that there have been various court cases about 14 in number, in which his executive have won 13 of them.
He also disclosed that many are in the know of various Police interventions and court cases to equally address the issues, but to no avail.
The ANLCA leader said that it was based on the inability of both the courts and Police to successfully resolve the ANLCA crises that the CRFFN was brought in. “Mind you, it was not me, Dr Kayode Farinto Collins nor the NECOM that brought in the Council. Rather as I learnt, it was the two BOT heads , Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha and Prince Ozo Chukwura, who approached the Council in 2022 to step in to resolve the ANLCA crises based on their Act which provides such intervention”, he narrated.
He stated categorically that though some of them from ANLCA are members of the Governing Council of the CRFFN, they were never part of the Committee set up by the Council to resolve the ANLCA crises and neither did they influence the committee’s report at any time or induced the Council Chairman to turn the committee report in their favour as being speculated by some mischief makers in the social media.
He dismissed the allegations that the Council turned the report in their favour, describing it as baseless, mischievous and cheap propaganda to once again truncate the peace process, since it’s not in their favour.
