laoma15:
This is a case of day light robberry! This can only happen in Nigeria. Jungle justice system. My advise to the returnees; do not put your egg in Nigeria basket. Every sector of the country is corrupt! Dont take your hard earn money back into that place. Everyone who has done so has regretted.

siraj1402:



Source: www.nigeriatell.com/news/man-cries-out-after-customs-auctioned-off-his-n33m-cargo-for-n250kphoto

barcanista:
of course. We all know the effect of overstayed containers on our ports and also the maritime sector. Sometimes, I don't blame government agencies for taking actions such as this. If you check properly, the customs acted within the ambit of the law

boyt1:

you are frustrated and hopeless with your ideas.
i do ship 40ft from on Hamburg on a regular basis like most other importers. Dont just jump into anything in life without proper planning and information. when i desided to move my investments to nigeria i did it in stages with planning

chronique:
That's the mistake a lot of Nigerians living in Europe and America make. They ship all manner of items down to naija,with the hope that they'd have raised the clearing fee before it gets here. When the container or vehicles land and they haven't been able to raise the fees,the containers/vehicles starts to accrue demurrage and sometimes once it stays for 90 days,it becomes govt property and would be sold for peanuts. But the truth is that,this particular container wasn't sold for 250k. 250k is what would be paid to the govt but trust me on this one,the officers involved in this transaction from top to bottom,must have collected real cash. A rough estimate of what the final allotee would pay,would be in the range of around 5m. If you must import anything to Nigeria,make sure you have your clearing fees at hand before it lands. Any other option is what I'd like to call "sorry". The fact is that,there are people who wait for containers and vehicles,to enter overtime and once they get the info,they start working on how to get it out. While you're busy sending letter from one dept to the other,they are busy crediting one account or the other and getting their goods. You can't blame nobody.

StealthyMe:
Saddening

E for just find person wey go buy am on his behalf...

stevecantrell:


I can tell you that even that would not be possible.

Issac John (customs) was programmed to win that bid.

stevecantrell:


I can tell you that even that would not be possible.

Issac John (customs) was programmed to win that bid.

osholuamhe:
Nigerians are so myopic. We only read the
peripheral meaning of a statement. What
GEJ meant is that "corruption" is a watered
down term for "stealing". In the mind of a
lot of Nigerians, the word "corruption" does
not inspire more frown as when you use
the word "steal". Give the man a breathing space.

If somebody's wife goes to bed with another man, it is Jonathan. All hypocrites!

InvertedHammer:
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First thing first, before shipping any consignment, one should ensure that the fund for clearing it is available.

People do this all the time. They ship goods and have no concrete contingent plan to clear the goods. In some cases where the containers are consolidated, some will not come up with their clearance fund thereby incurring demurrage on goods that otherwise should have been cleared in a few days.

The people that are highly connected and profit from the stupidity of such importers usually pray for such amateurs to ship their goods.
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ZACHIE:
Someone's error is someone else's gain.
Containers are not randomly auctioned except there is active Intel of high value, and gross negligence.
It seems all the ingredients were complete here.
Car is involved.
He left the container for long hoping on waivers.
And the vultures encircled him.
Sorry.
This case is hopeless. Aint jack he do about it.
It is dead,buried,exhumed and peacwfully