In line with its Social Responsibility (CSR), as an obligation, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has made a total cash donation of Over N1.4 million to Federal, State governments and other stakeholders in the maritime Industry.
The Federal Government COVID-19 and Lagos State COVID_19 received N500,000 and N350,000 respectively as palliative to help them in their fight against the pandemic.
Others that benefited from the largeese courtesy of NAGAFF include : –
NCMDLCA N50,000, MARAN N50,00, AMJON N50,000, NAGAFF SEME border N50,000 NAGAFF Jibiya border N50,00, League of Editors N50,000, MAJAN N50,000, NAGAFF Idiroko border N50,000, ANLCA N100,000, AREFFN N50,000, NAFFAC N50,000.
According to a release by the Secretary General of the Association, Dipo Olayoku, NAGAFF, a non profit making organisation, extended its CSR in line with its obligation and commitment towards ensuring operational efficiency and well being of the port users across the ports as contained in its status book.
“During the daily and weekly analysis of situation report on the ports operations under the Covid-19 pandemic aimed at monitoring and ascertaining the compliance level by stakeholders from the situation room today resolved to appreciate the commitments and the efforts of the above listed bodies towards their collective efforts against Covid-19 pandemic, thus rolled out palliative incentives to support them”, he added.
It therefore called on all well meaning critical stakeholders at the industry to rise to the challenge by deploying its resources towards safeguarding the ports and its users to engender the curtailing of the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
NAGAFF also emphasised that the fight against Covid-19 should be a collective effort, adding that no stone should be left unturned in this regard.
“While commending the efforts and tenacity of the aforementioned stakeholders under the prevailing circumstances, NAGAFF wishes to reiterate its official position that freight forwarders who do not have any business in the port are requested to stay at home, while those who have official business engagement in the ports should do so with total adherance to the stipulated precautionary measures by the World Health Organisation (who), and the directive of the government through the relevant agencies’
“Accordingly, we do stress that only the living and healthy can carry out business functions beyound Covid-19, hence the need to keep safe and secured”, it concluded
