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The member representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Senator Peter Onyekachi Nwebonyi has sponsored a motion directing security personnel to stop extortion, intimidation and harassment of motorists and commuters on the roads.
The Senate has called for the attention of Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to immediately direct his personnel to stop them from the extortion, intimidation and harassment of motorists and commuters on the public roads.
The motion by Senator Nwebonyi, tagged “Urgent Need to Halt Extortion, Intimidation and Harassment of Motorists and Commuters by the Police on public roads," was a sequel to be adopted in the Senate plenary.
In his lead debate, the lawmaker observed that one of the primary functions of the police personnel was to; among other things, facilitate the free passage and movement on highways.
In his words, Section 49 Sub-section One of the Police Act, 2020, empowers the police to conduct stop and search operations, but subsection two empowered them to search and detain any person or vehicle where the reasonable ground for suspicion existed.
He declared the police personnel who had the primary duty to facilitate free passage and movement of commuters and motorists on public roads had taken undue advantage by resorting to extortion, intimidation and harassment of motorists.
