Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has decried the prevalence of extortion points along the access roads of the Lagos and Tin Can Island Ports.
This as the agency embarked on a two-day clearance operations earlier this month, to rid the Ports corridor of shanties and illegal erections, which harbour the criminal elements who perpetrate these acts of extortion.
The Managing Director of NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, who spoke during the port corridor clearance operations carried out in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, said: “These acts of extortion and allied illegalities are injurious to trade facilitation, which is our core function and we cannot allow these nefarious characters make nonsense of the gateways to the national economy which the ports constitute.
“We had in the past visited punitive measures on of our staff who were complicit in such unethical practices, and I want to reiterate that once we are confronted with evidence of any our staff involved in these acts of sabotage, we would sanction them in line with the public service rules and our conditions of service which has zero tolerance for such malfeasance.”
