The NPA however reached out to the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) to help sensitize its members and solicit their cooperation in achieving desired outcome.
“This exercise will afford NPA the opportunity of data collation for traffic and infrastructure planning process and to prevent sharp practices like theft and to serve as security measure to prevent any threat to security in the ports in compliance with the International Ships & Ports Facility Security Code (ISPS Code). We are here to ask for your cooperation and to inform your members not to patronise any truck without NPA sticker as such truck has not passed through our road worthiness certification exercise,” general manager, Western Ports of NPA, Chief Michael Ajayi explained.
With effect from March 1st 2016, all trucks without NPA sticker will not be allowed into the port,” he concluded.