By: Adeosun Ewatomi
ASSISTANT Inspectors-General of Police AIG Fayoade Adegoke and other security agencies have held a stakeholders’ meeting on the unacceptable level of corruption and extortion along the ever busy Lagos- Seme border road. Sources said the meeting which held at the Zonal Command Headquarters, Onikan Lagos saw members unanimously agreeing that the number of checkpoints along the route had become unacceptable cutting it to only four. The stakeholders also agreed to constitute a Taskforce comprising the police, army, customs, NDLEA, immigration and NSCDC to enforce the order.
A statement issued by the Zonal PRO, CSP Umma Ayuba and made available to CrimeWorld magazine online said, “Today 14/01/2025, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command comprising Lagos and Ogun States, *AIG Adegoke M. Fayoade, mni, psc* held security meeting with relevant security stakeholders along the Seme Boarder Corridor at the Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan Lagos.The security meeting with officers from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the Nigeria Police Force was on the need to curb the proliferation of check-points and restore sanity along the Seme Boarder Corridor for economic growth along that route.
“It was unanimously agreed at the meeting by all relevant security stakeholders that a joint taskforce be created; members of which are to be drawn from all security agencies to enforce compliance with the agreed traditional *Four (4) checkpoints namely: (I) Seme Point, (II) Gbaji Point, (III) Apa Point and (IV) Agbara Point.* These points will be mounted by all security agencies to ensure watertight security along the border ways to foster synergy in fighting crime and give room for economic growth along the axis. For complaints in this regard, members of the public are to call 07088158606 and 09062011772”