{"id":384,"date":"2023-02-23T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsemperormagazines.com.ng\/news\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:38:51","slug":"24-hours-to-general-election-maritime-stakeholders-rally-round-kwankwazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsemperormagazines.com.ng\/news\/24-hours-to-general-election-maritime-stakeholders-rally-round-kwankwazo\/","title":{"rendered":"24 HOURS TO GENERAL ELECTION, MARITIME STAKEHOLDERS RALLY ROUND KWANKWAZO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>***Say He Assures of Customs Autonomy, Functional Seaports in Eastern Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ambrose Obioma Okehi (News Emperor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images 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is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just 24 hours to the all-talked-abiut presidential and National Assembly elections across the country, some maritime Ssakeholders vulging for the New Nigerian Prince Peoples Party, NNPP&#8217;s presidential hopeful, Senator Aliyu Musa Kwankwazo, saying if he wins the 2023 presidential poll, he will create Customs Autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group under the aegis of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has equally pleaded on all maritime operators, stakeholders come out and vote for the candidate of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), as he has promised to make bring back alive Seaports in the Eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Lagos, the Spiritual Founder of the party, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, who is also the founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF stated under Kwankwazo&#8217;s government, all the eastern ports would be revamped for maximum utilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNPP Spiritual leader said that Warri, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Koko ports would all be put into use within the first years of Kwankwaso\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aniebonam also admonished operators, importers, exporters, manufacturers, freight agents, government agencies to vote NNP candidate, Kwankwazo, who he described as the most credible among all the contestants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear Dr. Aniebonam, \u201cAs the founder of the NNPP , I hereby advise every stakeholders in the maritime business , transportation logistics,Importers and Exporters freight forwarding practitioners and agents of the government to understand that NNPP is our own and if we want to unbundle ourselves from the slavery in our industry, it is an opportunity for us to elect our own to enable us resolve our constraints in our concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI therefore urge all of you to go out in mass and vote Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso as the president of Nigeria\u201d, Aniebonam stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He maintained that the NNPP presidential candidate, if elected, will establish customs service commission noting that it will be granted partial autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Aniebonam opined that if NNPP is voted into power in this forthcoming election, that the party will ensure that the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) would be removed from the Ministry of Transportation and may likely move to Ministry of Trade and Investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, Kwankwaso will not hesitate to reopen the international frontiers for cross border trade and transportation pointing out that \u201cRemoval of CRFFN from the clutches of the transportation ministry to be partial autonomous in line with the Act\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMove CRFFN from the supervisory role of Transport Ministry to Ministry of Trade and Industry to enhance revenue collection and professionalism, adding that freight forwarding service under CRFFN regulation and control to go strictly on professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAGAFF founder also hinted that the Kwankwaso emergence as president and Connander-in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria by God&#8217;s grace, would expunge the licensing regulations and control of freight forwarding practitioners from customs law pending the National Assembly in order to ensure that it is in line with globally accepted best practices and standards .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Say He Assures of Customs Autonomy, Functional Seaports in Eastern Nigeria By Ambrose Obioma Okehi (News Emperor) Just 24 hours to the all-talked-abiut presidential and National Assembly elections across the country, some maritime Ssakeholders vulging for the New Nigerian Prince Peoples Party, NNPP&#8217;s presidential hopeful, Senator Aliyu Musa Kwankwazo, saying if he wins the 2023 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