By Onuora Aninwobodo
There will be only four security checkpoints long the Seme Border Corridor.
This is the decision reached at a meeting of all security stakeholders along the Seme Border Corridor held today at the Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan Lagos.
A statement by Ayuba Umma, spokesman of the Command, said all the security agencies agree to work together to ensure safety along the corridor.
The statement reads:
Today 14/01/2025, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command comprising Lagos and Ogun States, Adegoke M. Fayoade, held security meeting with relevant security stakeholders along the Seme Border 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 the 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, the statement said.
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