Verifra Inspect · Onitsha
Pre-shipment inspection in Onitsha
Book an inspection in Onitsha: wholesale stock checked before it ships onward, supplier premises verified inside the market, and evidence your distant buyer can trust, from £120 per man-day.
An inspection in Onitsha is a different discipline from a factory inspection. There is usually no production line to audit. There is stock: bales, cartons and pallets in market shops, plaza stores and warehouses, about to be sold onward to a buyer who may be three hundred or three thousand kilometres away. What that buyer needs is simple and hard: proof that the stock exists, matches the agreement, and gets loaded in full.
What our agents check here
A standard Onitsha assignment covers four things. Existence and quantity: the stock physically counted where it sits, not accepted from a stock list. Conformity: items checked against your order or sample: brand, grade, model, size curve, whatever your specification declares. Condition and packing: damage, age, storage state, and whether the packing will survive the road; an Onitsha truck journey is its own stress-test. Loading: the goods watched onto the vehicle, quantities reconciled, and the load photographed before departure, so "it must have happened at the park" stops being an available excuse.
Everything is captured on our standard protocol: geotagged, timestamped, hashed at the moment of capture, and delivered as a structured report whose every claim links to its evidence.
Who books Onitsha inspections
Three buyer profiles dominate. Regional traders (from Ghana, Cameroon, Niger and across Nigeria) restocking from Onitsha wholesalers without travelling. Diaspora buyers funding family inventory purchases and wanting the stock verified before money releases. And Nigerian businesses buying in bulk from a distance who have learned that a supplier's own photographs are marketing, not evidence.
Inside an escrow-protected deal, the inspection is not just information; it is a release gate. Funds sit with the licensed escrow partner and the staged payment fires only when the inspection report lands as a verified event. Booked standalone, the report is yours to use however you trade.
What a booking looks like
You book from your account with the wholesaler's details, your order or sample specification, and the loading date if one is set. Our Onitsha team confirms the schedule, attends unannounced where the assignment calls for it, and files the report the same day the visit completes. If the deal runs on escrow, the report lands as a verified event in your release schedule automatically; if not, it arrives in your account with the QR seal your counterparty can check publicly.
Beyond the market
Onitsha inspections routinely extend to supplier verification (our agent at the wholesaler's actual premises documenting scale and stock depth) and to sample collection with sealed chain of custody when a distant buyer needs the goods in hand before committing. Book any of the six inspection services from your account; the exact fee shows before you pay.
Where we operate
Local questions
- What does an Onitsha inspection cost and how fast can it happen?
- Inspections in Nigeria run at £120–£180 per man-day; a typical wholesale-stock check is one man-day. Our agents are based locally, so scheduling is a matter of days, not flights.
- Can you inspect goods a wholesaler is about to truck to me in Ghana or Cameroon?
- Yes. That is the classic Onitsha job: counts, condition and conformity checked against your order before loading, with geotagged photos and video, so the truck that leaves carries what you paid for.
- Do you inspect inside Onitsha Main Market itself?
- Yes. Our agents work the market's lines and plazas routinely: stock in shops, goods in nearby warehouses, loading at the motor parks. Access and local knowledge are exactly why local agents matter.
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