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Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has taken to social media to lament bitterly about high number of police and military checkpoints on South East roads.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the veteran via his Instagram page on Wednesday disclosed that he recently travelled through the Lagos-Ibadan express road and did not see any military or police checkpoints.
He noted that commuters plying South East roads cannot travel within 200 meters with experiencing these security operatives at different checkpoints harassing and humiliating them.
The movie star cum producer further questioned the government if the high numbers of checkpoints stems from a place of hate or dislike for indigenes of the South East.
He said, “I left Felele Olorunshogo area of Ibadan this morning at about 7.15 and this is exactly 8.15 and I am in Lagos. I found out one thing. Over a distance of 80 kilometers, I didn’t see one checkpoint, one police checkpoint or an Army checkpoint, Have you ever plied the Onitsha/Enugu expressroad. Did you ever count the number of police checkpoints or military checkpoints on Enugu-Onitsha road?
“Why is the South East militarized and policed that you cannot go for more than 200 meters without a police checkpoint. I need to ask this question because the delay in journeys and humiliation people go through needs to be pointed out. The number of police checkpoints, collection points? They humiliate our people so badly that most times people in the vehicle are asked to come down and hands up? Is this hatred? Is this dislike? This is not good. Is the South East still part of Nigeria?”
