All security agencies have agreed to set up four check points along the Seme Boarder Corridor in a bid to reduce the unnecessary number of security check points on the Express road.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command comprising Lagos and Ogun States, Mr. Adegoke Fayoade made the joint decision known after a security meeting with relevant security stakeholders.
Mr. Fayoade said that the security meeting held with officers from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency 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.
He said that it was unanimously agreed at the meeting that a joint taskforce be created, members of which are to be drawn from all security agencies to enforce compliance with the agreed traditional four checkpoints.
The four check points will be situated at Seme Point, Gbaji Point, Apa Point and Agbara Point..
The police boss said the 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.

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