The Senate on Tuesday, urged the Inspector -General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun to direct its personnel to stop forthwith, extortion, intimidation and harassment of motorists and commuters on highways. The senate resolution was sequel to adoption of a motion at plenary on “Urgent Need to Halt Extortion, Intimidation and Harassment of Motorists and Commuters […]
The Senate on Tuesday, urged the Inspector -General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun to direct its personnel to stop forthwith, extortion, intimidation and harassment of motorists and commuters on highways.
He said subsection two empowered them to search and detain any person or vehicle where reasonable ground for suspicion existed. Sen. Elisa Abbo said the issues of extortion of commuters on public roads were not only limited to personnel of Nigerian police but other security agencies in uniform.He added that this was by coming out with modern security measures via utilisation of modern monitoring security cadets like Close Circuit Television, cameras to police and to protect Nigerians on the highways.
Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe decried the constant dehumanisation of Nigerians by police personnel at the various check points in the South -East.
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