The Lagos State Police Command says it will reduce the multiple checkpoints along the Badagry Expressway.
The Command states that the multiple checkpoints were creating a negative impact and a bad image for the country.
According to the Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, who promised to look into the police checkpoints on the expressway and reduce them, the reduction will not affect security in the area.
Fayoade said this during a familiarisation visit to Area K Command of Nigeria Police Force along Oko-Afo, Badagry, Lagos.
He however, said security agencies were not the only ones manning the checkpoints, saying individuals, agbero, NURTW and others also mount checkpoints.
According to him, everyone is guilty, the people cannot continue to condemn only the security agencies because all are involved, urging parents to caution their sons who come out and block the roads to collect money.
In his words, it is not good for the country, as everyone wants to make money, by demanding for payment of tax, claiming to be a son of the soil, the owner of the land.
He asked the people to talk to their children and those engaging in the kind of attitude to stop it.
Fayoade commended local government chairman for supporting the command to fight crime.
Some traditional rulers of Badagry had earlier registered their complaints of policemen not wearing their uniforms on the highway.
The Onimeke of Imeke Land, Oba Olatunji Ogabi, said the behavior of some police officers on the highway was unbearable, urging the commissioner to sensitise them.
Also, the Chairman of Badagry Local Government, Olusegun Onilude, called on the commissioner to reduce the number of police checkpoints along the expressway.
He said the unnecessary delay and waste of time caused by the checkpoints had made tourists abandon the coastal town.