POF Enforcement: CRFFN Reports Intels, Brawal to Transport Minister
*Only two of them out 16 terminal operators failed to comply, complains CRFFN
By Francis Ugwoke
The management of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN ) has reported two terminal operators to the Minister of Transportation, Alhaji Muazu Sambo, for failing to enforce the collection of Ports Operating Fees (POF) for the federal government.
The Registrar of the Council, Barr Sam Nwakohu and the Director of Operations Mr Basil Opara reported Intels and Brawal to the Minister, Alhaji Muazu Sambo, during his tour of Onne Port.
Nwakohu had told the Minister that every effort to get the two terminal operators enforce the POF collection in their terminals failed, adding that they were the only terminal operators that have refused to enforce the collection from importers and agents.
Sambo had in view of this directed told the Registrar to do fresh letters to both Intels and Brawal and copy his office and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko who was part of the tour.
He warned that the federal government cannot tolerate the action of the terminal operators for refusing to comply with enforcement of the collection.
Opara told SHIPPING DAY that only two of the terminal operators have ignored the enforcement of the collection of POF in their terminals out of 16 terminal operators.
It is estimated that this has cost the agency hundreds of millions of Naira that should have been collected.
It would be recalled that the Ministry of Transport had to intervene in the POF collection as some freight forwarders had earlier protested payment.
The Ministry had directed NPA management to ensure that terminal operators enforce the collection by ensuring that customs agents clearing goods at the ports show evidence of POF payment before their goods are released by terminal operators.
By Francis Ugwoke
The management of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN ) has reported two terminal operators to the Minister of Transportation, Alhaji Muazu Sambo, for failing to enforce the collection of Ports Operating Fees (POF) for the federal government.
The Registrar of the Council, Barr Sam Nwakohu and the Director of Operations Mr Basil Opara reported Intels and Brawal to the Minister, Alhaji Muazu Sambo, during his tour of Onne Port.
Nwakohu had told the Minister that every effort to get the two terminal operators enforce the POF collection in their terminals failed, adding that they were the only terminal operators that have refused to enforce the collection from importers and agents.
Sambo had in view of this directed told the Registrar to do fresh letters to both Intels and Brawal and copy his office and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko who was part of the tour.
He warned that the federal government cannot tolerate the action of the terminal operators for refusing to comply with enforcement of the collection.
Opara told SHIPPING DAY that only two of the terminal operators have ignored the enforcement of the collection of POF in their terminals out of 16 terminal operators.
It is estimated that this has cost the agency hundreds of millions of Naira that should have been collected.
It would be recalled that the Ministry of Transport had to intervene in the POF collection as some freight forwarders had earlier protested payment.
The Ministry had directed NPA management to ensure that terminal operators enforce the collection by ensuring that customs agents clearing goods at the ports show evidence of POF payment before their goods are released by terminal operators.
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