ANLCA Elections: Farinto holds mega rally at Tincan Port
….Assures members of better days ahead
The campaign train of the Acting President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr. Kayode Collins Farinto who is gunning for the presidency of the foremost Customs Brokers association in Nigeria, ANLCA, on Tuesday arrived at the Tincan Island Port (TCIP) where Farinto had at different times served ANLCA as Chapter Secretary and Chairman respectively.
Tagged Mega Rally, the campaign train garbed in brand t-shirts, face-cap in a carnival style took off from the Tin can Island Port First Gate, made stops over at the TCIP Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, TCIP Port Manager’s office and PTML Command CAC’s office before returning to the TCIP Second Gate where Dr Farinto addressed a large gathering of supporters and stakeholders.
He assured ANLCA members that if he is voted into power in the coming election, members will witness a tremendous turnaround in their fortune as professionals that are responsible for the generation of the trillion naira revenue which the Nigeria Customs Service declares yearly.
DailyNewsWire reports that Farinto stated that he and his team if elected into office will engage the new Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu government to ensure that the Customs Brokers are given their rightful due to enhance their productivity.
His word: “If we are voted into power we will engage the government to give the Customs Brokers one per cent of the revenue they generate because they are in reality the ones generating the revenue which Customs collects. If we didn’t generate there won’t be anything for the Customs to collect.”
Reassuring his colleagues that the future is bright for them under the Tinubu administration, he disclosed that during the campaign for 2023 presidential election, “we forwarded a lot of proposals for changes we feel with bring the desired transformation in the sector and position the maritime industry as Nigeria’s second mainstay of the economy after oil. Thank God, we have seen them implementing most of those proposals we put forward. We expect the Transport Ministry to be unbundled to create a separate ministry for maritime.”
He said that the Customs Brokers have been so marginalized that he will be putting forward eight steps government should take to mitigate the poor treatment that had been meted out to the Customs Brokers over the years.
While asking for their votes and that of other contestants in his camp, he disclosed that the President Tinubu’s government is ready to listen to freight forwarders, as he and some other chieftains of the association are making efforts to make sure the freight forwarding profession is given its rightful place a major contributors to the government revenue and the economy.
Farinto said” You are very important, you are the one who go up and down looking for importers to bring in goods, you are the one paying the duty to government through your importers, Customs is just to calculate and determine what you have to pay, they are not the one generating the revenue, but yet we are not treated well, especially in taking decisions that affects our profession, this must stop.”