 The House of Representatives has passed a resolution asking the Inspector General of Police to dismantle all illegal checkpoints in Nigeria. The House also wants the leadership of the police to review the locations of existing ones. This is coming in the wake of an accident in Ihala in Anambra State that claimed 20 lives on Sunday. On that day, a trailer rammed into pedestrians around a security checkpoint. It is high time the IG looks into these illegal checkpoints. It's common sense, how can you put a police checkpoint at the end of a slope that would be engulfed in between 2-4 stations? What if a trailer that is carrying a tanker loses brake and something happens and it goes into flames without taking cognizance of the fact that there are petrol stations on the right and on the left? And the most annoying part of it was that afterwards the police that were at the checkpoint absconded. We lost over 20 people in our community due to the roadblocks and a particular point which ought not to be. We've cried to the authorities that people that be. We've raised alarms over now, before this time, to make sure that the proper things are done. But as it is, nothing is happening until that same Sunday where a trailer carrying container load had to run into that roadblock with the traffic grid lock on that point and killed a lot of people, killed peasants, women, children that were on their way to go about their normal business.