From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, “The
National Union of Road Transport Workers is a Nigerian organisation which
functions as a mixture of a public transport company, street gang, and a
transport worker's union. The organisation raises fund through several methods,
but the largest of these is charging fees - of approximately 20 Nigerian Naira
at illegal checkpoints, and from local shop owners. A large number of the NURTW
have been arrested in recent months after a government crackdown on these
unregulated fees, after the government embarked on a plan to stop people from
collecting dues outside motor parks. These people are known as “agberos”.
