Multiple levies, extortion by LG officials, louts suffocate delivery business, operator fall on hard times

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Janet Ogundepo writes about the challenges facing operators in the nation’s bike logistics sector

Journeying on an expressway or taking a walk, the sight of fully-clad bikers with a branded leather or plastic box strapped to the back of their bikes is a common sight in major cities. They go from one point to the other to deliver well-packaged goods to recipients. The dexterity at which they wriggle in and out of traffic could be daunting. It’s like they hold on to the ancient axiom that, ‘King’s business requires urgency.

“My reason for leaving the business was because of government policies with regards to the LG numerous permits. The LG boys known as ‘agberos’ disturb the riders, hold them for hours, ask for every document and despite producing them, they still find something to say. They tell the rider that they no longer use certain documents despite showing them all,”Ogunsi noted.

Also, Christiana Akinlose who became an entrepreneur and director of Tiana Courier Services in 2019, said she stopped the business due to the “continuous disturbance of the riders by the local government boys on the road,” She stated that they constantly extorted, searched and requested certificates, permits and stickers of their association.

NIPOST also currently operates as a regulator for courier operations in the country while also being an operator.reported on December 3rd, 2021, that the NIPOST bill at the National Assembly would “revolutionalise the postal system” adding that “the new bill passed is to bring NIPOST into international best practices by separating NIPOST as an operator from being at the same time, a regulator.

In Nigeria, a global database platform that tracks startups, Tracxn, reports that as of December 25, 2021, there were 101 logistics tech startups. As of January 14, 2022, there were 2032 tech startups in the country. He added that NIPOST requested evidence of tax payment as a prerequisite for obtaining a licence, pleading that courier start-ups be given time for the business to generate income and resources needed to meet the requirement for licensing.

“The local government officials don’t know what they are looking for. They check through the documents one has and still try to find a means to scrutinise everything and make it look like some things are missing. But if one has the papers and other necessary documents, they become powerless. In some areas, like Ikorodu, the situation is worse and the owner would have to be at the concerned LG to secure release of the rider.

 

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One of the examples of government failing its people. You can't create job, inadequate access to credit facility. When the people overcome all these & create jobs, you cripple the businesses with multiple levies that end in the pockets of corrupt govt officials. A pseudo nation

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This is harassment. What are they doing with all these money they are collecting?

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