Liberia, Sept. 22 -- Jos Leijdekkers' fingerprints are turning up in port after port, patrol after patrol, from Freetown to Tema to a beach in Liberia - not because one fugitive is unusually clever, but because West Africa keeps fighting him one border at a time. Ghana has charged its own customs officers. Liberia's police chief has named his own officers. Each response has been national, quiet, and separate. None has yet matched the scale of a network that treats the whole coastline as a single market. This editorial argues that unless ECOWAS states build real, shared instruments - intelligence-sharing with teeth, vetted port personnel, extradition that actually works, a joint task force built around networks rather than individual shipm...