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Police To Reduce Multiple Checkpoints On Lagos Badagry Expressway
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, has assured that the command would reduce the multiple checkpoints along Lagos Badagry Expressway.
Fayoade gave this assurance during a familiarization visit to Area K Command of Nigeria Police along Oko-Afo, Badagry, Lagos, on Saturday.
He said that the multiple checkpoints were creating negative impact and bad image for the country.
The CP, however, said that security agencies were not the only ones manning the checkpoints.
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“I will look into the police checkpoints on the expressway and reduce them. The reduction will not affect security in the area. You will see individuals, Agbero, NURTW and others.
“Everyone is guilty. We cannot continue to condemn only the security agencies because all of us are involved.
“Let us also caution our sons that come out and block the roads to collect money. It is not good for our country. Everyone wants to make money. I’m a son of the soil here, they must give me tax. ‘I am the owner of the land, they must pay tax’. This is common here.
“Please let us talk to our children and people engaging in this kind of attitude to stop it,” he said.
Fayoade also urged traditional rulers in Badagry to talk to the sons because majority of checkpoints were created by the youths in the area.
The police boss commended local government chairmen for supporting the command to fight crime.
The Commander, Area K Command of Nigeria Police, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Adeleke Smith, said the command had 11 divisions of Nigeria Police to ensure a safe and secured society.
Smith also commended the chairmen of local governments for their cooperation and support.
Meanwhile, some traditional rulers of Badagry had earlier registered their complaints of policeman not wearing their uniforms on the highway.
The Onimeke of Imeke Land, Oba Olatunji Ogabi, said that the behavior of some police officers on the highway was unbearable, urging the commissioner to sensitise them.
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Also, the Chairman of Badagry Local Government, Mr Olusegun Onilude, called on the commissioner to reduce the number of Police checkpoints along the expressway.
Onilude said that the unnecessary delay and waste of time caused by these checkpoints had made tourists to abandon the coastal town.
Also, a traditional leader, the Oniwoko of Iworo Land, Oba Olu Kosoko, urged the commissioner to build police station in the area, adding that the town, being the headquarters of a Local Council Development Area did not have a police station.
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