Harboursandport.com: Lagos ---- The Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Association of Nigerian Licensed
Customs Agents (ANCLA ) has officially announced that there is no crisis
within its fold and even in ANLCA.
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| National President of ANLCA, Tony Nwabunike |
The board has however confirmed that Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha is now
Chairman of the board. Prior to the election of the board which held at the
Golden Tulip Hotel in Lagos last week, the board was chaired for ten years by
Chief Henry Njokwu.
Speaking at a Round Table meeting with the Maritime Reporters
Association of Nigeria (MARAN) at its Secretariat in Apapa Lagos at the
weekend, Secretary of the ANCLA board, Prince Taiye Oyeniyi gave names of other
members of the board as;
Chief Dennis Okafor Vice Chairman and Prince Taiye Oyeniyi as Secretary.
He said that together with Mustapha, they would be piloting afairs of the board
for the next two years with effect from 15th April 2018.
Addressing journalists, Oyeniyi stated that "ANCLA does not have
any crisis, the incubent President Hon. Tony Uju is at peace with every
member, however some of the issues at hand are presently an internal matter
that can be resolved within us".
According to a communique in which a copy was made available to MARAN
members, the board secretary also maintained that "In recognition that the
present leadership under Chief Henry Njoku has done about two years terms, a
motion was moved and adopted by 5 votes with names respectively Prince Taiye
Oyeniyi, Chief Ernest Elochukwu , Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha, Chief Dennis Okafor
and Mr. Dayo Azeez.
"While the other 3 members in abstentions where Chief Henry Njoku,
Aare Sanni Shittu and Chief Peter Oboh."
The BOT Secretary also gave a brief history of how Henry Njoku had
frustrated series of attempts to convene a meeting to peacefully elect a new
BOT Chairman.
He argued that Njoku was not removed based on tribal sentiment but on
expiration of tenue which was long overdue.
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