Council For Freight Forwarders To Partner With ICPC

The council for the regulation of freight forwarding practice in Nigeria has re-instated its resolve to fight corruption which is endemic in the freight forwarding industry.
Hon. Tony Nwabunike, the chairman of the council has therefore disclosed that the body was ready to collaborate with the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to stamp out the menace in the port industry.
Nwabunike, who was speaking at a book launch in Lagos last week, declared that the intention of the council was to professionalize the freight forwarding practice by ridding it of the ills that are currently plaguing  it.
“The freight forwarding business has come to stay and it is the resolve of the council to professionalize it,” he declared.
He warned practitioners in the industry that there would be no business as usual due to the commitment of the council to root out all forms of malpractices in the profession.
“We shall partner with the ICPC to ensure that we record zero-tolerance for corruption. We shal also ensure that all the freight forwarding practitioners imbibe the spirits and letters of the council”, the number one freight forwarding practitioner said.
Nwabunike revealed that the council was working on