Wary security officers make people walk to checkpoints

Nigerian police says people wishing to pass through checkpoints in the country’s north must leave their vehicles and walk the final 100 metres with their arms raised following violence by a Muslim sect.
Borno state police chief Mohammed Abubakar said Wednesday he had enforced the new measure at checkpoints “of interest” in the city of Maiduguri due to violence by a radical group known as Boko Haram.
He said the police will not “fold (its) arms and allow criminals to take over the land.”
More than a dozen police officers and soldiers manning Maiduguri’s checkpoints have been killed since July. The sect also recently killed a gubernatorial candidate.
The Feb. 5 rule initially applied to all checkpoints, but was relaxed in some neighbourhoods due to protests.

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