Nigeria needs to reposition and work on the Transportation sector to meet International best practices. .... Dr. Oluwasegun Musa.

By Afolabi Oyekunle.

Nigeria's Transportation sector needs to be modernized and holistic to meet International best practices.

This is coming from Dr. Oluwasegun Alade Musa, a Transportation Expert, who is the Group Managing Director of Widescope International Group of Companies and Chief Chief Consultant Global Transport Policy.

Dr Alade recipient of many awards

Dr. Musa who spoke to FocusNews in his office on wide range of issues in the Industry said the World is moving forward fast in the transport sector and Nigeria could not afford to lag behind.

According to him, the country is struggling to catch up but needs to do the needful.

Dr. Musa said for the country to catch up and meet International standard, there is the need to have a well articulated policy drive that is targeted towards improving infrastructure to allign with International standard as well as putting people who have passion, knowledge and experts in the sector at the helm of affairs.

Dr Alade Musa

According to him, transportation

is highly technical that needs experts to handle and just nobody.

He called for a stable policy that allign with International best practices and competent people to handle.

Dr. Musa said the motive force behind every economy is transportation and must run in a way that they complement each other towards efficiency.

He said concentration on a single mode of transportation will not allow to maximize the benefits of commerce and the economy .

Speaking on the efforts of Customs Comptroller General Bashir Adewale Adeniyi to improve the service, Dr. Alade advised him to ensure automation of the system.

. Customs CG Bashir Adewale Adeniyi

According to Dr. Alade, Customs services need to upgrade to a point whereby there would not be any interface with Officers and everything should be done online.

Dr. Alade said because Customs is introducing computer system does not make the service automation because there is still interface with Officers.

According to him, there is nothing that makes Nigeria a peculiar station that it cannot comply with international standard that eliminates interface in conducting trade as is being done by other countries

"All these physical contact is uncalled for and frustrate trade and at the end of the day increase the cost of doing business in Nigeria and that is why the cost of commodities in the country is skyrocketing."

Dr. Alade Musa advised the Customs CGC to work towards fully automation of the service before leaving office and leave Customs in a better way than he met it .

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