Have you brought in car from U.S or any part of the world and your vehicle key was not stolen? You just among the 5% lucky ones. More than 90% of vehicles imported through Nigerian ports have their keys stolen at the port.
This has brought extra cost to car dealers who often have no choice than to scramble to get a key programmed to the vehicles. So car buyers or dealers often chose to get the vehicle towed out from the port. The cost of towing a vehicle out from the port rangers from N20,000 to N50,000 depending on the part of lagos the vehicle is to be moved to.
The cost of getting a new key is very expensive and most times, unbudgeted by car importers and car dealers. Some vehicles like 2018 Mercedes benz E class is more than N500,000. The key itself, if stolen, worths less than N5,000 in the market. So someone created a problem of N500,000 because of a mere N5,000. The same goes to other brand of vehicles like VW, Lexus, Toyota etc.
Government should come to the rescue of car importers and strengthen security at the port. The people stealing car keys at the port are not invisible. They should be arrested, and sent to court. That's the only way it can be stopped or reduced.

This just happened to me now.
A toyota avalon key has been stolen!