Check points should not be banned however the time when it is being done should be look at. Check points help to catch criminals and also allow persons to know that LAW and ORDER is still being maintain. What the Commissioner should do is put the Policemen and women whose integrity are not being question at these Check Points. Never allow the same persons at the same Check Points to avoid familiarity. When I was working with the Police Force here in Jamaica has a civilian Office Manager this is what was being done after there were cries of Extortion. Hugs
In Jamaica maybe it worked. Forget it in Nigeria. take for instance the check points on the way to Jos. they are meant to check vehicles for any threat to the peace of the toen and the state. Yet the vehicles pass very peacefull after just a cursory glance into the vehicle and at the vehicle amybe to check the make o... i dont know!
By the way, the IGP should extend his good work to the far north especially Yobe state where the roads are terrible and narrow and yet there are police checkpoints to cause commotion.
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