Maritime Guru and Customs Broker Top-Brass, Prince Olayiwola Shittu has stressed the need for the incoming Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo to retrieve from the shelves, experts’ past submissions and reports and harmonise them, if he truly wants to register appreciable impact, within the shortest possible time.
The former National President, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Shittu indicated this, in his brief submission to the Federal Ministry of Transportation, during stakeholders’ Sensitisation, to the strategic importance of the Nigerian Shippers Council NSC as an Economic Regulator, by the Federal Government.
According to him, there may be really no need, to strive again, to re-invent the wheel.
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Addressing the FMOT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Magdalene Ajani who stood in for the conspicuously new Minister, Prince Shittu observed that while the Nigerian Maritime industry had been seriously neglected over time, a lot could still be achieved, if recent reports, articulated from the past, stakeholders’ brainstorming sessions can be retrieved from the shelves where they are currently gathering dusts, and harnessed.
He noted that at each meeting held in the past, expert solutions had been proffered, even though such noteworthy solutions had been tactfully ignored, even as some continued to harp, on the same problems or challenges.
He frowned on the fact that Nigeria only currently exports religion and related activities, instead of tangible export products.
Encapsulating the maritime industry as being both delicate and strategic, he traced recent Federal Government’s efforts in the industry, beginning from reforms, conquering the gridlock, to Vice President Osinbajo’s yeoman’s efforts on Ease of Business policy; and expressed concern that the best desires had remained a mirage; just like the ongoing efforts of the NSC to entrench sanity, had similarly suffered frustration.
“I hope this infighting amongst the parastatals within the Federal Ministry of Transportation will come to an end”, Shittu emphasized, noting how some of the bottlenecks which once plagued the industry and brought untold setbacks were in fact, inordinately inflicted.
A two-tenure ANLCA National President, Prince Olayiwola Shittu is unarguable, the nation’s foremost Customs Broker; and one of the few with unquestionably, unblemished integrity.
