The Senate’s recent appeal to the Inspector General of Police to reduce the number of security checkpoints on the federal highways should be regarded by the authorities concerned as an assignment of urgent national importance. The call is in public interest and so should not be ignored by the IGP and other security agencies at this festive period.
Let’s be fair to the security operatives. The turnpikes had increased in the wake of kidnappers and daredevil killer herdsmen reducing our major arteries to a theatre of war. With air travel still poorly connecting the cities or simply nightmarish due to delays and cancellations by airlines operators, terrorists are waylaying the highways for their targets.
However, the ugly and regrettable side of the development is the multiplicity of the barricades and extortions that go with it. Today, across all the federal highways in the Southern parts of the country are checkpoints by diverse security agencies – the Army, Police, Customs, Federal Road Safety Corps , National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , National Security and Civil Defence Corps and Immigration.
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