ANLCA disowns national executives appointed by factional group

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has disowned four of its members who were recently appointed as National Executives by Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha- led factional Board of Trustees (BoT).

The four were appointed as interim national executives to run the association.

In an exclusive chat with the National Secretary of the association; Alhaji Babatunde Mukaila, he said the four persons appointed by the factional leader of the association into the interim National Executive Committee (NECOM) of the factional group are not known under the supreme constitution of ANLCA because they don’t have valid Customs licenses to practice as Customs brokers.

They include: Pius Ujubuonu, the Acting National President; Adeyinka Jamiu Ishola, the Acting National Vice President; Waheed Badmus, the Acting Financial Secretary and Francis Ozemede Itua, the Acting National Publicity Secretary (NPS) of the factional group.

Mukaila further alleged that the four persons appointed by Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha have no licenses, while stating that Mustapha who claimed to be a leader in ANLCA should know the association’s constitution, wondering if he was just being mischievous to cause confusion in ANLCA.

He stated that; “The constitution of ANLCA irrespective of any version at your disposal, Section (4), under Membership stipulates that members of the association shall be limited to corporate bodies incorporated under the CAMA1990 as amended 2020.

“So, all our AGM is supposed to be governed by general members, those Companies who are corporate members of ANLCA.

“It is just the company owners that should come forward and participate in the AGM and the representatives of those companies ought to be Directors who must have had, (this is the caveat), at least 10% of the shareholding of those companies and at least five years running and whose membership status must as well be five years with ANLCA” he said.

When asked about what could be the reason why the Taiwo Mustapha faction refused to be part of the AGM schedule initially he said, “I wouldn’t know why, because if you are a member of ANLCA, it’s an automatic thing for you to attend the AGM as the Director of your company whose License is valid,  and who have paid their dues up to date.

“I want to believe anybody raising eyebrows, is it that they don’t have a license or they are not financially up to date as members of ANLCA? That will be my straightforward answer.”