The Nigeria Customs Service said it has facilitated Nigeria’s first shipment to Kenya, with Lucky Fibres, a subsidiary of the Tolaram Group.
The service added that with the shipment, the company has become one of the first companies to ship goods to Kenya under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.
The National Public Relations Officer of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Speaking during a recent visit in Apapa to ensure proper documentation and verification of the shipment, a Senior Trade Expert and Lead of Trade Enablement at the Nigeria AfCFTA Coordination Office, Olusegun Olutayo, noted that the shipment from Nigeria to Kenya, specifically to the port of Mombasa, demonstrates the collaborative spirit of AfCFTA.
“It is not that we are doing it alone; I have already sent a message to the Secretariat in Ghana that there will be a shipment under AfCFTA to Kenya. I have also communicated with the AfCFTA implementation committee in Kenya. So this is the spirit we are building to ensure that we increase intra-African trade,” Olutayo noted.
