Setting out from home on a journey, or even when going to work or visiting friends, the Nigerian road user is besieged by a cocktail of uniformed men, wielding anything from Ak-47 to sticks and koboko. They could be soldiers, policemen without a name tag right down to community boys in sundry Khaki. Law and order, and crime prevention are the furthest items in their minds. Obtaining money by any excuse imaginable is the sole purpose of all that…
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