ANLCA Crisis: Taiwo Afolabi’s BOT Certificate, A Hoax of the Year—Interim NECOM
The Interim National Executive Committee (NECOM) of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has condemned the certificate of registration from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) being paraded by the factional Board of Trustees, headed by Dr Taiwo Afolabi, describing it as a hoax, and an attempt to distort the narrative in the ongoing crisis of the association.
Acting National Secretary of ANLCA, Joe Sanni in a statement on Friday said the Registered Board of Trustees (BOT) of ANLCA, led by Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha is determined not to dignify the fraudulent documents and pictures of the purported CAC registration which started trending on social media.
The statement reads in part “As law abiding citizens since the crisis erupted in April 2018, there are hard and incontrovertible evidences/facts in the public domain and before the law courts, to negate all that has been pushed out to the media, especially the maritime genre.
“The registered BOT shall therefore keep its distance from what Kayode Farinto, Mukaila Abdulazeez, Eniola Igbaroola and Ozo Chukwurah are trying so hard to make the public believe, while the various courts and the law enforcement agencies do their professional jobs.
“We have endured these hardened violators-with-impunity of valid and subsisting court orders, since 27th December 2018 (FHC/L/CS/2155/2018), to 11th October 2019 (FHC/L/CS/1274/2018), to that of 29th June 2020 (FHC/L/CS/599/2020) and to the most formidable of all the court orders on 26th of August 2020 (FHC/L/CS/921/2020), to that of Justice Lewis- Allagoa on 25th March 2021 (FHC/KN/CS/79/2021), which nullified their purported Owerri-BOT elections. The order has remained unchallenged till date.
“Despite disclaimers put out by the Registered BOT with CAC-issued certificate dated 16th of January 2020, that Owerri-BOT kept disturbing the peace of the Association.
“We as law-abiding members of ANLCA should continue to be patient, believing that the Almighty God we serve, shall not let us down. We can be a little bit more patient for the courts to pronounce that all the violations they have committed since Justice Rilwan Aikawa gave the order for NECOM to stop parading themselves as National Officers of ANLCA, are all null, void and of no effect since 26/8/2020.
“All the fraudulence committed by obtaining a fake judgment wherein the plaintiffs and defendants are one and the same persons, only tell us of those who are determined to find themselves behind bars.
“Those who presented themselves as Board members in order to obtain the fraudulent judgment (FHC/AB/CS/109/2021), and use same to deceive the Corporate Affairs Commission, to give them a certificate, will obviously have a criminal case to answer very soon. We the law-abiding people should not be worried about where they desire to go. That is their business.
“The Registered BOT, in exercising their constitutional powers as enshrined in the Supreme Constitution of ANLCA 2008, inaugurated an interim NECOM on the 24th of August 2022 inside the National Secretariat, pending national elections into NECOM within the next 90 days.
“The BOT shall not waver in ensuring that ANLCA is saved from the hands of these destructive elements who are bent on taking our government institutions for a ride” Joe Sanni said
Some of the Evidences and certificates presented by Joe Sanni below;