NAGAFF Writes AIG, Maritime …..Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Manager, Premier Container & Allied Services
NAGAFF Writes AIG, Maritime
…..Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Manager, Premier Container & Allied Services
By Jerry Aguigbo
The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, Nagaff has raised the alarm over the refusal of Ekko Premier Container and Allied Services, Ikota to release two auctioned containers duly allocated to Nagaff by the Nigeria Customs Service without recourse to facts and reasons as presented by the allottee, even with the intervention and involvement of the Customs and the AIG Maritime.
In a statement released today by the Coordinator Nagaff Compliant Team, Alh. Ibrahim Tanko, Nagaff claims theft, pilfering and willful confiscation of the said containers by Ekko Premier Terminal and Allied Services, Tanko called on the AIG Maritime to ensure the full weight of the law is brought to bear on the Management of the Terminal. Excerpts from the letter by Nagaff Compliant Team reads thus:
The Assistant Inspector – General,
Maritime Police Headquarters,
Force Headquarters Annex,
Kam Selem House,
Obalende,
Lagos.
A CASE OF THEFT AND CRIMINAL CONVERSION OF CONTAINER NOS;FFAU 2082021,
CAIU7022981
MSDU 7666283 BY EKKO PREMIER CONTAINER AND ALLIED SERVICES,OKOTA.
Sir,
The above matter refers.
Whereas the outcome of your painstaking investigation on the above mentioned containers were duly communicated to the above named terminal, with the consequential orders IGNORED, we hereby implore your good offices to immediately commence criminal prosecution against them.
But for our intelligence network, the containers would have been spirited away in the night of 20th March, 2025.
We have physical and material evidence to prove their nefarious and criminal intents.
Recall Sir, that in your position as keepers of order and security in the Maritime industry, you initiated mediations since November,2024.
Your office wrote the Nigerian customs service for clarification on the status of the containers.
You obtained clear and unambiguous affirmations that the said containers were duly allocated to ELEVATE MOORE VENTURES through the auction process.
The terminal rejected your letter, questioning your authority in that regard.
They insisted on getting a letter from the Customs, to ascertain the authenticity of your investigations.
The customs wrote them, affirming your findings, and ordering them to release the containers to ELEVATE MOORE VENTURES.
Still, they refused; ignoring you, your summons and that of the Nigeria Customs Service.
Note Sir, that the criminal intents of this terminal management was laid bare when they breached established protocols to lift those containers without a valid DELIVERY ORDER from the shipping line.
Till date, the other “allotees”,as claimed by the terminal have never shown up, not even to the customs to claim ownership.
This confirms our suspicion that the terminal management had decided to steal those containers!
There is also a serious suspicion that those containers may have been tampered with.
One is believed to have been stuffed with cement blocks.
The other completely empty!.
That could be why they have been dodging your invitations.
You may have to write the customs to ascertain the veracity of this allegations.
The terminal management need to be arrested as the examination is done.
Trusting in your just and immediate action.
Please accept the assurances of our high regards.
Sincerely,
Hon. Ibrahim Tanko
National coordinator.
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