The ‘atsiakpo’ business started in the early 2000s where the locals feel the then ‘Salt Development Project Task Force’ (SDPTF), that took over from the then Vacuum Salt Company Limited is not doing enough in the area of employment and that the Songor lagoon is not producing much salt to allow for more people to even mine during harvesting time. Some few people then decided to experiment something outside the lagoon and fortunately they made some salt. A continuous experimentation has resulted in many people rushing and cashing in on the new way of doing salt ‘atsiakpo’. But this new way or method is rather a recipe for the destruction of the Songor Lagoon.