More than 40 People said policemen working with criminals along Benin-Ore Road - Security Expert

Security expert, Jackson Ojo, has accused police deployed in some sections of the Benin-Ore Expressway of conniving with hoodlums to attack motorists and passengers on the road.

Ojo, a fellow of the International Institute of Professional Securities, told Punch. The road came into the spotlight following the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunri, daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in the Ondo State section of the highway in July.

Ojo, a frequent traveller on the highway, said what he observed on some occasions and the information he got from traders and villagers on the road made him conclude that some of the police connived with the hoodlums on the road.

But the Ondo State Police Command debunked the allegation that its men were conniving with hoodlums to perpetrate a crime on the expressway.

A spokesperson for the command, Femi Joseph, told Punch, “It is either the person saying our men are conniving with the criminals is being mischievous or trying to satisfy his paymasters.(Punch)