The acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has said that the Nigeria Police Force cannot afford to vacate checkpoints.
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He made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria while reacting to the prices of rams in the market for Sallah.
Before the killing of the Customs Officers, the gunmen struck at a military checkpoint within Omuaga axis of Elele-Owerre, close to the Port Harcourt International Airport.
They said this during the Joint Weekly Peace and Security Meeting organised by the three Local Government Areas in the axis, held at the Badagry Local Government secretariat in Ajara, Badagry.
The Nigerian military has disbanded all its security checkpoints in Adamawa State, The NEXT EDITION is authoritatively reporting today.
The group has rather urged the hierarchies of the Nigerian Police Force, the Nigerian Customs Service, the Nigerian Immigration Service and the Nigerian Army to jointly set up formidably equipped anti-weapons’ smuggling offices in the various entry points into Nigeria from Chad, Niger and Cameroon
ASP Magaji Majiya, the police spokesman in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the lifting of the ban on checkpoints was the initiative of the Commissioner to relieve residents of the hardship encountered during their daily commuting