CRFFN to Use “Executive Diploma” Crash Programme to Weed-Out Unqualified Freight Forwarders

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By Chidi Anthony Opara

The Council For The Regulation Of Freight Forwarding In Nigeria (CRFFN) in collaboration with the University of Lagos is running an offline crash programme, in which participants are awarded “Executive Diploma” in what is tagged “logistics chain” after three weeks. This programme is available to those in Lagos and those willing to go to Lagos and stay for three weeks. It, of course goes for more than a quarter of a million Naira.

CRFFN is reportedly planning to use this “executive diploma” as “entry qualification” to weed out from the freight forwarding profession those who did not participate in this crash programme by December, 2021.

Let me quickly stress here that I do not doubt the capacity of the University of Lagos to conduct academic study programmes in any field of study. What I however doubt is the ability of the premier academic institution to design and impliment credible professional development programmes.

CRFFN is empowered by the establishment act (act 16 of 2007) to induct freight forwarders who have a certain minimum cognate experience into the body as freight forwarders. The act however also empowered CRFFN to by means of regulation stipulate a continuous professional development programme that should be undertaken by the inducted practitioners to improve their professional competence.

Conventionally, professional regulatory bodies all over the civilized world design and impliment continous Professional development programmes for their members and minimum academic entry qualifications for intending entrants.

The continous Professional development programmes are designed in a way that every member of the profession must access and participate in to earn credits, with set minimum credits which should qualify the practitioner to continue to practice. A decline from the set minimum credits would mean that the Professional would be suspended from practice until the required minimum credits are earned.

What we have currently is the usual misadventure of CRFFN, not known to have designed and implimented any inclusive continuous professional development programme, rather conducting an offline crash academic programme only in the Lagos area with which it want to use as an entry qualification in December, 2021 for professionals it inducted into the profession(not provisionally)years ago.

Chidi Anthony Opara, RFF, FIIM
(Registered Freight Forwarder and former member of CRFFN’S Freight Forwarders Consultative Forum)

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