The Managing Director, Ebony Express, Mr Okey Uba has
said that the Nigerian courier services
have enormous potentials of creating more than 300,000 jobs, and yet remains
untapped, DigitalSENSE Business
News reports.
Uba made this view known at just concluded 3rd
Nigerian Courier Summit organized by Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) in Lagos, stressing that out of
291 courier services in the country only 20 are alive and making business from
the business that they get from abroad because the services in Nigeria is in
distress.
He said that only change is the panacea which must
come from an independent regulator, noting that the Courier Regulatory
Department (CRD) as it now stand cannot operate without the enabling laws as it
has not been able to solve infringement in the courier services, but rather
refers the matter to the police whose hands are already full with
constitutional duties.
DigitalSENSE
Business News recorded that the Ebony Express boss singled out the DHL as
the only courier company that has been able to maintain standard, whereas in
others, a staff commit fraud in one office and he moves on to another company.
He lamented the
incursion of printers and online marketers turning themselves into agency that
clears imported goods from the confine of their bedroom, while people also go
to motor parks to send their consignment to be received in another park.
“The Post Cash in NIPOST is not working; stamp duty is
not enforced because there is no law. People who retire from NIPOST don’t go to
other courier business because in Nigeria there is no place for them. NIPOST
now resort to capital market for survival and continue to increase licensing
fee and renewal fee for genuine courier companies as if they are their problem.
Some state governments want the courier companies to purchase power bike for
their business and to register with the Police Officers Wives Association
(POWA), Nigeria Lorry Drivers Association, Nigerian Legion to have right of
way. All these have helped to kill the potentials that ought to be tapped in
the courier industry,” Uba lamented.
He advocated that the CRD as presently domiciled in NIPOST
be moved to form the NIPOST Service Commission that has witnessed failed
attempt to materialize since 2006.
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