The Board of Trustees (BoT), Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), has resolved to implement a court judgments that has been given on the unending leadership tussle between the association and some of its expelled members.
It said the decision was reached after efforts to settle the lingering crises and restore unity between both parties proved abortive, while the dissident group continued to smear the image of the association by its conduct, thereby bringing it to disrepute.
Speaking at a media parley, yesterday, the Vice Chairman of the BoT, Ozor Chukwura, reiterated that the National Executive Committee (NECOM) led by Tony Iju Nwabunike, which came into power in 2020 at the Owerri Annual General Meeting (AGM), is the authentic and recognised one.
Chukwura said: “The board has taken some serious steps and resolutions to stop crises in the association. We had our elections on the 13th of February, 2014, where the past board was elected and their tenure expired in 2020. Now, we are in 2022, yet some of them are still claiming to be in office. One of the past Board members went to court and returned with a judgment. It states that the president (Nwabunike) should not recognise the authority of the third defendant (Taiwo Mustapha) as a member of the board and a board chairman, it was issued on October 11, 2019 by the Federal High Court.’’
Even in the CAC, the splinter group is not recognised as members of the board, yet we keep playing games and the person in question is still parading himself as a board chairman, contrary to this judgment. There is another judgement that confirms that this present board is the authentic one and so many others, yet we do not enforce them because we are one big family, but the matter has gotten out of hand. Hence, we have no choice but to call a meeting and the board has resolved to implement all court judgments.”
Recall that ANLCA and its splinter group have been at loggerheads for years, with a plethora of court cases contesting the legality of the present NECOM and other issues dating as far back as 2018, with the originating case with suit No: FHC/L/CS/1274/2018.