As the February 20th, 2025 Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ( ANLCA) Chapter elections draw near, there are serious manipulations ongoing at the Corporate Affairs Commission ( CAC) in Abuja, by nearly all the candidates for the Chapter elections.
Our Correspondent who is monitoring events leading to the chapter elections exclusively gathered that a very serious threat posted by the ASECO Guidelines is affecting nearly all the candidates who are now making them rush to CAC to manipulate their records to be able to qualify for the election.
According to the Revised ASECO Guidelines for ANLCA election 2024, Article 3 ( Eligibility General Requirements ), Number (C) states “All candidates shall be Directors of Corporate members, and the candidate shall be a major shareholder.
” The candidate’s name and shareholding status shall be
reflected and duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on
the particulars of directors i.e. form Co2 and form Co7 filling date and that of
Custom Operational License not less than five (5) years for Chapters Executives
as at the time of interest.”
(D)”Candidates/Voters shall be Directors of a Corporate member who must be
financially up-to-date.
(E) “The minimum qualification of the candidate shall be a West African School Certificate or its equivalent.
(F) “All candidates shall indicate interest in writing addressed to the Chairman of
ASECO in accordance with section 22(3) (b) of the ANLCA Constitution.
(G) Corporate members must possess a current year valid Customs License.
“H) “Company’s (Corporate member) as well as the candidate’s income Tax
Certificate for the last three (3) years must be submitted in lieu thereof. ”
Our Correspondent gathered that before now, most candidates standing for elections in ANLCA were to at least have 10% Share holding in such companies with five (5) years standing before vieing for election .
With this Roamrepporters online gathered it was easy for any contestant to approached a company owner to allocate him/ her 10% from his share and this has been the practice for long in ANLCA.
But with the introduction of the new guideline (C) a candidate must be “Majority Shareholder”. With this new rule the burble has busted as according to our reliable source nearly all the candidates going for the ANLCA chapter elections are neither company owners or majority shareholders in their companies.
Roamrepporters Online further gathered that to meet up the screening which is scheduled for January 17th, 2025, most of the affected contestants are jostling at CAC office in Abuja to see how they can change from 10% shareholder portfolio to majority shareholder and to also manipulate ( back date) it to five (5) years to be qualified for the chapter election as stipulated in the guidelines.
Our source also inform that “We are worried, if every election in ANLCA is being manipulated. How then can the association grow , when we don’t elect trustworthy leaders.
” Moreso, we are also worried if the CAC officials will soil their hands to manipulate five years for somebody, even if he or she becomes a minority shareholder today, it should start counting from that date and not to be back dated to suit the purpose, that is fraud and we are watching. We just hope CAC does not drag their name to the mud in this matter ” .
Meanwhile, the ASECO prices for the Forms of contestants for the chapter elections are as follows :Chairman
N700,000.00, Vice Chairman
N600,000.00, Secretary
N600,000.00, Financial Secretary, N500,000.00,
Treasurer, N500,000.00,
Publicity Secretary
N400,000.00 and Assistant Secretary N400,000.00 .
The election is scheduled to hold on February 20th, 2025.
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