Association Urges Members To Adhere To Port Regulations

The leader of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarder (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, has urged stakeholders to adhere strictly to port regulations in order to ease operation.

Aniebonam told our correspondent in Lagos that the Nigerian Custom Service (NCS) had set out to achieve certain aims and objectives in the course of its operations.

“We should comply with import regulation, making genuine declaration for the customs purpose.

“The management of the customs has even put other measures; things like once the PAAR (Pre-Arrival Assessment Report) is given, examination conducted, cargoes leave the ports.

“No other person talks to the cargoes anymore. So, all hands must be on deck to see that it works.

“We should not think that we just want to stay on the fence and say okay ‘let us see how custom will do that’.

“No, it is not about Custom, it is about Nigeria,” Aniebonam said.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, had said in Lagos that NCS would not stop any cargo cleared with the PAAR document on the road any more.

Abdullahi made this known during the launch of PAAR document by customs recently.

According to him, this will encourage people to make use of PAAR to clear their cargoes from the ports.

He said “with PAAR, clearance of cargoes is more convenient, faster and limits human contact at the ports,” he said.