Twas the same 50 years ago in Nigeria.
I went there for a B737 post they insisted i had the rating,
So I got it in Carolina at my own expense.
Back in Nigeria I was kept waiting for months.
The DCA head honcho wouldn't recognise my licence , without a bribe of £5000 ( one years salary then)
So naturally I left.
(Funnily enough I decided to fly "freight" into ULI instead.
I found the Biafrans extremely competent to deal with.)
After a coup in Lagos that head of DCA scarpered to UK with a fortune
The new regime got an Israeli team to catch him ,
and he was in a packing case at Stansted ready to be flown back to Lagos
Unfortunately, the Brits rescued him.
I don't know what became of him after that
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