Few weeks after the
retirement of the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Mohammed
Abubakar, road blocks along the Lagos Badagry Expressway have returned with the
Badagry – Seme end having about 11 and nine police and Customs checkpoints
respectively.
Following the ban on all
police road blocks across the country by Abubakar, activities of such
activities along the major international routes were eliminated.
Shortly after the
appointment of the new police boss, Suleiman Abba, the road blocks have
gradually crept back to the routes resulting in police officers insisting on
performing the duties of the Customs.
Even those by the Customs
which the Service headquarters have limited to just three, have steadily grown
to seven between Seme and Badagry in the last three weeks. Investigation
revealed that the Customs checkpoints are mounted by
