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I Didn't Have To Pay egunje Reports

Total reports: 11

Not a kobo requested
Date Reported: 2013-01-15 08:33:23 | City: Ikeja
Came accross a honest official | Department: Transport
Office/Company: VEHICLE INSPECTION OFFICE DRIVER AND VEHICLE LICENSING ADMINISTRATION (VIO-DVLA)
Transaction: Drivers Licence
Bribe Type: Corporate
Detail: I still can't get over the fact I did not have to pay a bribe. Early this 2013, I went to collect my driver's licence which I had applied for in 2010 at the Ojota-Ikeja FRSC/VIO station. I remember when I applied for the license, I was commanded to "drop something" by a hostile official who I had to submit my application form to. My driving instructor, who came with me told me to just pay, that that is how they normally do. I was irritated and gave the greedy old man my 150 Naira after he and another female officer in his "office" insulted me, telling me to get out and come back when I was ready. Well, 2 and a half years after when I had time to finally pick my licence, I went to the station, and to the post where the licences were being collected. I didn't have any documents or proof apart from my i.d card and an explanation. When it was my turn, I explained to the official extending and signing on the temporary licences. Initially, the man told me he couldn't help me without my documents, but after a while, he looked at me and pointed at two big bags full of uncollected licences. He then told me to search for my licence. Almost reluctantly, I did, and found it. When I showed him, he nodded and directed me to the next place where I would sign for it. I went there and saw two women who were in charge of the post. I told them what I wanted to do. They opened a book and asked me to sign. I did. I looked at them, they told me I could go. That was all. I couldn't, and still cannot believe it. I didn't have to pay a bribe! Unbelievable. It had to be God!
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He insisted I go through the official process
Date Reported: 2013-01-05 06:08:53 | City: Abuja Municipal
Came accross a honest official | Department: Transport
Office/Company: VEHICLE INSPECTION OFFICE DRIVER AND VEHICLE LICENSING ADMINISTRATION (VIO-DVLA)
Transaction: Drivers Licence
Bribe Type: Personal
Detail: I made a driving licence recently at the VIO office in Mabushi, Abuja. I got a VIO officer's number from someone who said he could help me make the process faster. When I called the officer, Awulu, asking if we could circumvent the process, he said no. He insisted I go through the official process. I did, it took a long time but I eventually got my licence without paying bribe to anyone.
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JAMB
Date Reported: 2012-12-14 02:45:29 | City: Bwari
Came accross a honest official | Department: Education
Office/Company: JOINT ADMISSIONS MATRICULATION BOARD
Transaction: Requesting Information
Bribe Type: Corporate
Detail: I want to praise the Jamb chief executive for the attention he gave me and my complaint when I went to the Jamb head quarters. No money was collected from me whatsoever. I left happy.
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'The Police Is Your Friend'
Date Reported: 2012-12-04 15:58:34 | City: Abuja Municipal
Came accross a honest official | Department: Police Formation and Command
Office/Company: POLICE FORMATIONS AND COMMAND
Transaction: Road blocks
Bribe Type: Personal
Detail: It was Friday November 30, 2012 when my 17h45 Aero flight from Lagos to Abuja eventually brought passengers into Abuja, landing at 01h17 December 1, 2012. By 01h30, I was out of the terminal building and trying to carefully select a cab. I was approached by two cab drivers, I asked to see some ID and took the one with ID belonging to the Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN). Unfortunately, the car was bad. We jerked and spluttered all the way to Jabi and on Obafemi Awolowo Rd., near Mr. Biggs, the car finally gave up. This was now 02h15. Troubled that I was now alone on a lonely street with a hired car and potentially at the mercy of robbers, I came out of the car, called my wife and asked if she would come get me as I wasn't too far from home. Just then, a police patrol van came up behind us and four men with guns started questioning. I quickly volunteered my plight and explained my wife was coming to get me. The officer driving said call your wife, tell her not to bother, we will take you home (after I described where I live). I called my wife, told her and she panicked remembering all the stories we had heard of extra-judicial killings reportedly done by men of the anti-robbery squad SARS. I was to say no thanks and wait for her. But instead, I told her not to worry, I would come with the police as I was also concerned about her safety coming out at that hour. I got in the squad car, I heard the chatter on the radio with squad cars reporting in on their location and results of their surveillance confirming all was well and calm. I sat in the back sandwiched between two officers with guns. I broke the silence immediately and told them how I thought their job was hard, thankless and poorly appreciated. I cited Brekete Family show and the sad tales of police families struggling for the pension of their loved ones who died on duty or sick policemen begging for help with their medical bills. I became an instant celebrity, they brightened up and told me how truly thankful they are for that show. We got to the gate of my estate and I was very thankful as so many alternative endings raced through my mind. It could have been robbers not a police car that came by. They could have been rogue officers and not kind men and taken me away, robbed me and killed me. I reached my hand into my pocket and offered the four officers N1,000 each for the kindness they had shown me. They immediately rejected the offer and said they couldn't accept it from me. It was like I was in the 'Twilight Zone' or something more wierd and eerie as I was the one insisting that I had to reward them for their kindness. They protested N1000 each was too much and eventually accepted the money. They didnt drive off till I was safely inside the estate. What a night? How bizzare? I had never encountered the Nigeria Police so gallant and chivalrous, perhaps indeed, "The Police is Your Firend" as they say.
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KUDOS TO STAFF AT ISBN OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, ABUJA
Date Reported: 2012-11-30 05:54:27 | City: Abuja Municipal
Came accross a honest official | Department: Information and National Orientation
Office/Company: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND NATIONAL ORIENTATION
Transaction: Cash handling/ credit card management
Bribe Type: Corporate
Detail: I had to obtain 2 ISBN for books we are publishing and was attended to by the staff at the ISBN Office of the National Library, Abuja. Without so much as a hint of a need for gratification, we paid the official amount and were issued a receipt.
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