It's was not business as usual for the several illegal, unregistered/unlicensed courier and logistics  operators in kaduna State yesterday, Thursday, May 2024. The ENFORCEMENT TEAM of CLRD (NIPOST) clamp down and seal off several operational offices of illegal/unlicensed/ unregistered private Postal, Express, Delivery, Dispatch Courier, and Logistics companies.

Their operational equipment and vital documents were confiscated as exhibits.

 

The joint enforcement team, which consists of CLRD Management staff led by Bar O. Mariam Jogai, the Kaduna enforcement team, led by the state postal manager himself, Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed Kaduna, the officers from the force criminal investigation department(FCID), fully armed policemen from the kaduna State police command, and gentlemen of the press carried out the successful enforcement operations in kaduna State. 

 

Shortly after the clampdown exercise,the General Manager, Courier and Logistics Regulatory Department(CLRD), NIPOST, Mr. Gideon Oludotun Shonde, who was in kaduna State for the exercise, declared the reasons for the arrest. 

He said they were arrested for "operating illegally and refusal to obtain a grant of operating license from the Postmaster General of the Federation/CEO as stipulated by the extant laws."

 

"It is also a crime against the state to operate in a space that is regulated without proper registration and licence," he said.

 

 

The General Manager expressed his displeasure as many Private Postal, Courier, Express, Dispatch,Delivery and Logistics Operators nationwide engaged openly in illegal courier and logistics services with reckless abandonment, no considering for ethical standards and professional practise.

 

He promised not to relent in arresting the ugly scenario by sanitizing the courier and logistics business in the country for as long as it takes.

 

The GM hinted that these quacks engage in unethical sharp practices, which include but are not limited to the following; 

 

price undercutting, broaching,

damages, 

loss and dumping of customers items, poaching and subletting of operating license with numerous public complains about customer's packages  being missing or obtaining money from customers under false pretenses, no traceable office address nor registered brand name"

 

The GM advised that "any interested private investors in the Courier and Logistics business should follow the due process by obtaining a grant of operating licenses from the federal government. (NIPOST)".

 

 

The General Manager Courier and Logistics Regulatory Department(CLRD), Mr. Shonde Gideon Oludotun, in the middle, by his left, the KADUNA State postal manager, Mr. Mohammed Kaduna and the enforcement  team before the strike action against the illegal/ unlicensed operators in kaduna state.

 

 

Barr O. Mariam Jogai sealed off the office of an illegal,unregistered, and unlicensed courier and logistics premises in the heart of kaduna state.