The row between Nigerian Aviation Handling Company ( NAHCO) Plc and Customs agents seems to be showing no signs of abating, despite a 20% cut in tariff.
The war of nerves has raged for two weeks and now the cost is being counted –in cash (in some cases) and lives (in others).
Agents eager to deliver goods to their clients are already being told that with the.....
rising dollar rate, many businesses will record losses.
But there is a moving human element to the problem.
The lives of many patients are hanging in the balance, their life-saving drugs held up at the NAHCO shed.
Among such patients are those at the Centre for Nuclear Medicine –an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Project—at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. They are mostly cancer patients.
The centre has written to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to save it the problems of clearing its radioactive materials. However source recalled how the former President, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, approved a special clearance for the centre’s goods. “He was a chemist and he understood it all. He quickly granted the request,” said the source, who pleaded not to be named because he is not permitted to talk to the media.
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