Some freight forwarders have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to spread his dragnet of anti-corruption war to Nigeria Customs Service and Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, if he must cleanse the nation’s maritime sector.

The licensed customs agents alleged that the two government agencies were acting beyond their jurisdictions in the discharge of their defined duties.

According to the Managing Director of Zetus and Associates, Emmanuel Ezetu, customs officials are allegedly frustrating them from conducting their clearing and forwarding businesses without parting with financial gratification, outside stipulated fees mandated by Federal Government.

Ezetu alleged that customs officials had made it near impossible for them to comply with government’s directives of 48 hours clearing of goods at the ports, thus compounding traffic gridlock around the ports.

He said: “The traffic nightmare that Lagosians experience on Apara-Mile 2 Road is a direct offshoot of what Customs officials are causing.”