LSWLCA, importers bicker over fees, underhand tacticse

Warns military, police against revenue sabotag

By Eguono Odjegba

THE Lagos State Wharf Landing Fees Collecting Authority, LSWLFCA, has warned military personnel and the Nigerian Police personnel to desist from offering get-away services to importers and their clearing agents, an act the authority said is robbing the state of projected revenue.

This revelation is coming on the backdrop of an earlier allegation of exploitative tendencies levelled against officials of LSWLCA by clearing agents and port users.

According to importers and their clearing agents, the authority’s officials have deployed new tricks of collecting the prescribed fee of N200/N300 without issuing the payer receipts.

They further allege that no sooner the payer drives off than the officials alert their task force operations team on standby to chase after the affected vehicle, impound and take vehicle to its premises at Marine Road GRA, Apapa. Thereafter, the supposed offenders are handed a plain sheet of paper containing penalty payable for supposed violation of wharf landing fee law.

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While the authority charges a penalty of N100, 000.00 for individual offender, it charges corporate offender the sum of N500, 000.00 payable to the authority’s Access Bank account.