ANCLA Promises To Synergise With Customs

The leadership of the Na
tional Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANCLA) has promised to sustain its working relationship with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
A statement issued by the association last Monday in Port Harcourt, said members of the association are always willing to be part of the Customs Service efforts to share up their revenue profile.
The statement quoted the National President of ANCLA, Chief Olayiwola Shittu, as advising the customs service ensure that all stakeholders are appropriately catered for.
The association’s president explained that the association has set up a committee to monitor the activities of touts at the nation’s ports infiltrating the noble profession of customs brokerage with a view to giving the association bad name.
He urged the customs service management to ensure that major stakeholders in the maritime sector of the nation’s economy are taken along in making major decisions in the bid to sustain the rising revenue collection by the service.
Shittu called for the streamlining of the responsibilities of the Nigeria Customs Service valuation unit that had been a source of friction between customs officers and clearing agents at the nation’s ports.
The Association’s president reiterated the determination of his association to collaborate with all the stakeholders in the maritime sector, including terminal ports operators to sustain business inflow and physical transformation of the various ports across the country.
He called on ANCLA members to ensure that they exhibit transparency and honesty in all their dealings and transactions.

Philip Okparaji