Contrary to the media re
ports that the Nigerian Shippers’ Council has been mandated to re-organise  the Council for the Regulation of Freight  Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the Registrar CRFFN, Sir Mike Jukwe has denied any knowledge  of such  mandate  given to anybody or agency by the Minister of Transport.
Jukwe told journalists  that there was no such mandate and that if there is any such mandate, it would be incumbent  on the officials  of  CRFFN to let  it  out  and not the  other way round.
“I don’t  know where all these thing comes from. If the  Honourable  Minister  has done that, I am not aware. I think you can  verify from his media people. If there is anything in the offing, people should wait. If there is official  statement,  it will be made by the authorities and not by all these people  saying this  and that. The official authority  has not said  anything  like that. So me,  I am  not aware”, he said.
He however said that if the Shippers’ Council claim  that there was a mistake in the first election of the governing council of the CRFFN, and  that there was the need to correct  the perceived mistake, such move should not mean that that they  have been mandated to re-organize  CRFFN.
The Registrar disclosed that the management of CRFFN was not interested in conducting the election into the governing council to avoid giving the impression that it was in favour of one particular  association or individual, rather it has chosen  to maintain neutral in order to allow a different body  or agency to conduct the election.
According to him,” if a different body comes to conduct the election, there is nothing wrong about that. We welcome that but not that the management itself should see to the conduct of the election.  I think that what we are  talking about and not that one agency has been given  the mandate to reorganize the other or something like that”.
He butressed the fact that the Act provided for the governing council to be put in place but was quick to add that time would be taken this time around to avoid the mistake of the past.
He said that the election would come up at any giving time, adding that it would be communicated to the public.