CRFFN Registrar Story

CRFFN Registrar’s bid for Second Term faces Doom 

ZAINAB JUNAID

Strong indications have emerged that the Registrar of the Council for the Registration of Freight Forwarding practice in Nigeria (CRFFN), Samuel Nwakohu, might not win the heart of his fellow members following his last minutes efforts to bid for a second term tenure in office as the head of the freight forwarding regulatory body.

The outgoing Registrar, Mr. Nwakohu, who was appointed in February 2019, is expected to officially leave office in February 2023 after successfully completing his four years tenure. Information at our disposal revealed that he has written the regulatory body to declare his intention for second term tenure late last year but the move was not welcome by majority of the freight forwarders as they declared him unqualified, at the first meeting held by the Council on Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 at Rockview Hotel, Apapa Lagos where members deliberated on his second term tenure chances.

It was gathered that, earlier at the December 2022 meeting of the Council in Abuja, where the application letter of the outgoing registrar for a second term tenure was read, a committee was raised to look into his request to return. The committee according to the information gathered, was given two weeks to submit its findings to the council which has the statutory rights to make recommendations on the bid of the Registrar to the Minister of Transportation, Engr Muazu Sambo.

Members were said to have unanimously dismissed the second-term bid of Nwakohu and saw the move as obscene, unwarranted and an insult to the collective psyche of freight forwarders given what they all agreed was his unmitigated failure at the meeting on Tuesday. 

Also in a telephone chat with Standard Times Reporter on this development Tuesday evening, Mr Mukaila Babatunde of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, considered him not effective. 

He said, Nwakowu does not deserve a second term in office as the registrar of CRFFN. His tenure was an unmitigated disaster. He is arrogant. He doesn’t relate well with the freight forwarders, which he was meant to supervise. He is quick to anger. He distanced himself from his immediate constituency. 

“We need someone who is ready to learn, someone who listens to correction, and suggestions without taking Offences. Personally, I do not want to see him (Sam Nwakohu) return as the Registrar of CRFFN,” he declared. 

Another member of the association who spoke in the same vein declared him “Unwanted” as he challenged his inability to achieve greater Value with his four years in office. 

All these among others are likely parameters that can deny him chances of winning the second term bid.