We have never posted officers to any checkpoint around port environment — AIG Okunade

By Efe Onodjae
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Maritime, AIG Okunade Ronke, has denied allegations that officers were deployed to illegal checkpoints around port access roads, insisting that no such authorization exists within the system.
Her clarification came as the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Ports Authority stepped up a coordinated operation aimed at dismantling illegal checkpoints and unauthorised roadblocks along the Apapa and Tin Can Island port corridors in Lagos.
The renewed enforcement drive follows growing concerns over extortion, traffic congestion, and jurisdictional conflicts that have long plagued the busy trade routes linking Apapa, T...