ANLCA Says Customs Officers Too Corrupt To Allow E-Transaction At Ports

CG Customs; Alhaji Dikko Abdulahi Inde and National President, ANLCA; Prince Olayiwola Shittu.

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has condemned the Nigeria Customs Service for allegedly frustrating stakeholders’efforts in ensuring paperless transactions at the various seaports in Nigeria.
The association alleged that corruption is the main reason customs officers don’t allow e-transactions to be successful in the port system, because they want to keep enjoying their gratification and extorting customs agents.

Speaking with Shipping Position Daily in Lagos, Special Adviser to ANLCA National President ‎On Insurance and Members Welfare; Chukwudi Ike noted that experiences garnered from various trainings and workshops attended by clearing agents on paperless transactions cannot be put to use because customs offices are not interested in paperless transactions.
He said: "The Customs being the critical stakeholder in the port are the people who are not allowing this cashless and paperless operation to succeed, but the CG is trying to make sure that it works and we as critical stakeholders have to encourage them by making sure that our people are trained"
"Conceptually, these trainings are supposed to enhance our operations, but when we go back to the field, because of the prevalence situation, we are not allowed to put this into practice because already, some of the lectures talk about paperless transactions and electronic transactions".
"But there are people somewhere trying to thwart it because of their selfish interest, this training is supposed to open new horizon so that trade is facilitated and the aim of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) would have been achieved" Ike added.
He noted however that a very little percentage of the practitioners are currently benefitting from the training programmes organised by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN).
He described the effort as a little drop in the ocean.
"But, be that as it may, Rome was not built in a day, there should be continuous training and retraining‎ and with this we will get there" he assured.http://shippingposition.com.ng/article/anlca-says-customs-officers-too-corrupt-allow-e-transaction-ports