American-based Australian author Mark Pollard has lamented the shakedown culture and request for bribes in Nigeria, stating security checkpoints are being used as shakedown points.
All these occurred while the author and CEO of Sweathead, a global strategy training company and community. was on a visit to attend a Strategy masterclass event in Lagos tagged “Strategy Is Your Words: Strategy Masterclass with Mark Pollard in Lagos”.
“Nigerian friends, is your entire country set up to shake people down? Because coming in and out of the airports there, I was told, you know, you give me cash at least 10 times.
“A lot of the roads have security checkpoints, but are they security checkpoints or shakedown checkpoints? Even going into my hotel, people weren’t just looking me up and down to see if I was carrying anything dangerous. They were looking me up and down to see if there’s anything that they could ask me for.
