LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Squad have arrested some Policemen and officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), during a raid on illegal checkpoints on the Seme-Badagry Expressway.
The IGP squad chased and arrested the said perpetrators at some of the checkpoints, believed to have been created purely to extort.
Vanguard earlier reported that the activities of the illegal checkpoints have led to disruptions of movements of goods and people, and believed to have also hindered trade facilitation, apart from the negative image such action exposes the country before the regional and continental community.
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It was gathered that the raid would be sustained until bad eggs within the respective agencies responsible for illegal activities are completely removed through sanctions and punishments.
A Customs broker based at Seme who commented on the development said, āThe maritime police command has since appropriated part of customs job by blocking manifests. They order shipping companies not to release manifests, and such tendencies have become entrenched.
āThey even impound containers on the road and take them to their premises around Obalande. We want the IGP to help us beam its searchlight here too. There is so much extortion going on at the maritime command. They should be fighting maritime crimes and should be stopped from taking over customs job.ā