Corruption may cost Nigeria up to 37% of its GDP within the next 14 years, according to a PWC report this week. But freight forwarders are proving that paying off officials is not a necessary part of the logistics business.
Lagos-headquartered AMG Logistics has just completed a certification with trace, an anti-corruption and compliance specialist. AMG MD Mark Daoud said the country was changing and a better understanding had grown among authorities that bribes don’t need to be paid. AMG is not alone in its belief. The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) last year began a public inquiry on the activities of corrupt Customs officers at the nation’s seaports. The campaign worked despite opposition, with the chief of Customs having put a new management team in place. Mr Daoud, who formerly worked at Panalpina, had no doubt that AMG, established in 2014, would remain corruption-free. NAGAFF president Eugene Nweke told local media last month that corruption had been rampant in areas like Customs examination, value assessment and stoppage of released goods at the exit gates of ports.
 

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