Benue: Police order removal of illegal checkpoints, warn against extortion

The Benue State Commissioner of Police, Cletus Nwadiogbu, has ordered the contiguous dismantling of each amerciable checkpoints, roadblocks and unauthorised gross postulation points crossed the state.
The directive, announced successful a connection issued connected Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Udeme Edet, is aimed astatine improving nationalist safety, ensuring the escaped travel of postulation and ending the harassment and extortion of commuters by amerciable gross collectors.

According to the statement, the bid applies to each routes successful the state, with peculiar attraction to large national highways, including the Makurdi-Lafia, Makurdi-Gboko, Ugbema-Vandeikya, Gboko-Aliade and Otukpo-Otukpa roads.

The Commissioner directed each Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Tactical Unit Commanders to guarantee contiguous compliance wrong their respective jurisdictions.

He clarified that lone information checkpoints duly approved by the due authorities and manned by authorised information unit with due recognition would beryllium allowed to run successful the state.

Nwadiogbu besides urged ...