The Police High Command says state governors are aware of the roadblocks mounted by its personnel either on major highways or some intercity roads in their respective locations.

It also said that Nigerians abroad are trooping into the country to enjoy Christmas in their respective communities sequel to improved security situation in every nook and cranny of the country.

The spokesman of the force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, stated this while fielding questions from journalists during a joint press briefing of all spokesmen of all security agencies held at the Office of the National Security Adviser, Abuja.

The briefing, organised by the Strategic Communications Interagency Policy Committee (SCIPC) of the ONSA led by the Director of Legal Services, Zakari Mijinyawa, had representatives of military, fire service, FRSC, among others in attendance.

Reacting to fears of some people over kidnapping incidents on major highways particularly in the South East, Adejobi said the force had deployed to major highways in order to forestall any of such occurrence.

?Let me say that we have done strategic deployment, and our deployment across the country is not to intimidate anybody, it is for us to make sure that all our routes, major highways and communities are safe.

?Let me clarify that we don?t have roadblocks in Nigeria, we have stop-and-search points, nipping points, andothers. Where you see roadblocks, that iszigzagmovement ? beitlog of wood, drums and everything, must have been at the request of the governor of that state.

?No command will form any roadblocks without the consent of the governor of that state. There are some states where the governorshave actually requestedor soughtpermission of the IGPto have such roadblocks,? he said.

The force spokesman said that the senior officers in the police had never sent any officer on patrol to make money for them, saying Nigerians should report such officers via publicised headlines if caught while misbehaving.

He added, ?Generallyacross the country, we have stop-and-search pointsacross, and we?ll continue to havesuchstop-and-searchpoints for nowuntilwe have a system that is better, where we will not have men stoppingvehiclesandcheckingyour papers, where we haveauthorisedpatrol,whencameras will be monitoring our highways.

?But now, for our own good, and for the good of our people,plying all theseroutes. But where we have issues with the men, at these various points, we have rolled out our help lines.We have rolled out our complaint response platforms and numbers. Let us make use of them.

?I?ve not seen any senior man from any agency, particularly inthe police,that we muster his namein the name of money. Apart from Customsthat is for revenue,I?ve not seen any that willsaygo and raiseN10 million for me as you?re going to your pointofduty, I?ve not seen it,? he said. (Daily Trust)