NCJTFLCA Dares FG , set to mount checkpoints on Lagos – Seme Expressway
NCJTFLCA Dares FG, Set To Mount Checkpoints On Lagos-Seme Expressway
By Babatunde Aremu
A group, National Compliance Joint Taskforce Of Licensed Clearing Agents (NCJTFLCA) is set to dare the Federal Government by mounting a checkpoint on the ever busy Lagos-Badagry-Seme highway thereby increasing the number of checkpoints on the road and compounding the woes of road users on the axis
According to credible multiple sources who blew the lid of the planned checkpoint to the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (MARAN), the group in preparation for the planned checkpoint recently inaugurated its Seme Border Chapter on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
A certain Comrade Adamu Sambo was appointed as the Chairman while Mr Idowu Gboyega Isaac was appointed as the Secretary.
The sources lamented that the planned checkpoint will add to the growing number of checkpoints on the axis.
Between Seme and Agbara, there are no fewer than 30 checking points, with several agencies like the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS), Department of State Security (DSS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) amongst other agencies mounting multiple checkpoints on the highway.
Incidentally, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) saddled with the responsibility of checkmating the activities of smugglers appears to have reduced the number of its checkpoints on the highway limiting its operation to about three checkpoints particularly at the Gbaji section of the highway and Agbara.
Raising concerns about the planned checkpoint, the sources added; “The group is planning to mount a checkpoint on the corridor to be collecting money from trucks, trucks that have already paid duties.
“This plan will add to the multiple checkpoints on the road and increase the prices of goods thereby adding to the hardship experienced by Nigerians”.
The group has High Chief Dr. Basil Nwolisa, as National President of the Task Force.
The planned checkpoint is a clear departure from the mandate of the association which prided itself as an advocacy group with a bold agenda to enforce compliance, eliminate corruption, and uphold ethical standards in the clearing and forwarding industry.
“With the mounting of a checkpoint on the already busy corridor, it will amount to extortion from already cleared goods. It will add to the bottleneck and hamper the ease of doing business” the source added.
It will be recalled that the challenges of multiple checkpoints has been a recurring one on the ever-busy economic highway with no fewer than 30 checkpoints dotting the road.
However, MARAN gathered that the planned checkpoints is already been resisted by other rival freight forwarding and licensed customs agents operating at the border post.
