ANLCA’S president, Nwabunike promises to restore peace
Tony Nwabunike, the national president of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), has disclosed that he was committed to peace, imploring aggrieved persons in the association to embrace dialogue as a means of resolving misunderstanding among members.
Nwabunike, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos recently, lamented that despite his several peace gestures to aggrieved members that some of them had continued to take the association to court, causing crisis, while putting the association name in the mud.
He, however, warned people parading themselves as chairman or members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the association to desist from doing so, because no individual had been elected into the board. He added that the tenure of the previous board had expired, while assuring that investigation would be conducted into recent attack on the secretariat of the association by hoodlums.
“Somebody is claiming that he is the chairman of the BOT, and I don’t know who gave him the chairmanship position. That tenure had expired. There is an on-going investigation to know who brought hoodlums to come to this place,” he said.
He further said that the court order sacking the BOT of ANLCA remained sacrosanct and must be obeyed to the letter, while further dismissing insinuations that the association was under a tribal crisis.
“Whoever is telling you
Igbos are fighting Yorubas in this association is telling you lies, my Vice, the National Secretary, and my chief of staff is Yoruba, so I don’t understand the tribal comment from them, it is just prank that they want to use to destabilise the association,” Nwabunike added.
The ANLCA President further said that his administration had consistently sought peace despite repeated court cases by some individuals who are bent on destabilising the administration, adding that he was committed to running an inclusive and open administration.
Also speaking, Kayode Farinto, vice-president of ANLCA, said the four exmembers of the BOT who had consistently taken the association to court were only fighting a lost battle because their tenure had expired in line with the constitution of the association after holding office for six years.
Farinto said the association had informed the Corporate Affair Commission of the development, saying that new members of BOT could only be elected or appointed through Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association.
“The position of the law is clear; they have been in office for the stipulated six years according to the constitution of the association, two members have accepted that their tenure have expired, and left. But four of them are still claiming to the BOT positions despite court order restraining the association from recognising them which have not been appealed,” Farinto said.
The conference was also attended by Mukaila Azeez, national secretary, and other national officers.