By DAYO JOHNSON

AKURE—POLICE Authorities Thursday justified the removal of road blocks across the country, saying that men and officers of the force had abused it by turning it into money making spots.

Assistant Inspector General of Police in-charge of Zone 8, Mr. Uzor Amakulor, said in Akure that activities of some of the men and officers at road blocks had caused undue embarrassment to the image of the force.

Speaking at a seminar organised by the Ondo State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, for over 1, 000 members in the state,  Amakulor noted that  road blocks no longer serve the purpose of crime control for which they were created in the past.

According to him “It is highly unfortunate that rather than utilising road blocks for the purpose of crime control, officers and men being posted there had turned them to money making spots to the detriment of their primary duties there.”

There is no way the real criminals could be apprehended in such circumstances because the focus of our men at the road blocks is how to make money.  Those with criminal intention and who understood the language of the men of the road, would not be checked but be allowed to pass without checking.”