Inside the purge of a sprawling extortion racket at Lagos’ ports corridors - Businessday NG

If you were not paying attention, you could easily have missed it. The checkpoint had no signboard, no formal structure, only half-broken chairs, old notebooks and dusty beer bottles scattered beneath an ageing canopy. Even the officers stationed there struggled to explain who authorised their presence. Yet truck drivers say they were stopped there routinely and asked to pay unofficial tolls to pass.

This was the scene during a two-day sweep of Lagos’ Apapa and Tin Can Island port corridors by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment C

If you were not paying attention, you could easily have missed it. The checkpoint had no signboard, no formal structure, only half-broken chairs, old notebooks and dusty beer bottles scattered beneath an ageing canopy. Even the officers stationed there struggled to explain who authorised their presence. Yet truck drivers say they were stopped there routinely and asked to pay unofficial tolls to pass.

This was the scene during a two-day sweep of Lagos’ Apapa and Tin Can Island port corridors by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment C