Police have arrested 10 officers for mounting illegal checkpoints along the Badagry/Seme Border Expressway.
 
Police sources said the arrest by detectives attached to the Zonal X-squad Zone 2, Onikan Lagos, followed series of complaints by Nigerians plying the route to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Zone 2, Muhammed Ari Ali, on the activities of security agents, especially police officers.
 
Ali, who addressed newsmen, yesterday, lamented the untold hardship Nigerians, especially businessmen have been subjected to in the hands of officers at the various checkpoints.
 
He said: “When I assumed office as the AIG here, I was inundated with complaints of the activities of security agents mounting illegal checkpoints for the purpose of extortion.
 
“So, we set up a team of detectives from the Zonal X-squad to investigate and report back. I can authoritatively tell you that over 10 police officers have been arrested and are being detained for necessary disciplinary action. One funny thing about these people is that most of them are not serving police officers either at the border or in Badagry.
 
“They just go there, mount road blocks and start collecting money from travellers and businessmen doing their legitimate businesses. We have a way of dealing with them internally. The raid exercise was going to be sustained because the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, has met with the Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Wale Adeniyi, on how to collaborate and checkmate the menace on that route.”