Drivers block Abuja-Kaduna Highway over alleged harassment by security personnel

Aggrieved trailer drivers blocked the Abuja /Kaduna highway on Saturday while protesting alleged harassment by security personnel.

Findings gathered that the drivers said the protest was to express their dismay over continuous harassment by security personnel deployed on the road.

A driver who pleaded for anonymity remarked that, ‘the security personnel are fond of wasting their time on the road by asking them frivolous questions.”

Even though, he did not revealed the type of questions being asked but he did say that the security personnel usually delay their trips and cause heavy ‘go slow’ on the road.

It was gathered the drivers blocked the Sabon Gaya village axis of the highway thereby causing serious gridlock and leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.

Speaking on the development, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Sector Commander, Hafiz Mohammed, said his officers alongside policemen have been deployed to clear the road.

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“The road is blocked, and you know most people in this country are lawless; so we are here trying to clear the road and this may take time,” he disclosed.

Mohammed also advised travellers who want to travel to Kaduna from Abuja to suspend their journey as travelling in the night might not be the best thing to do.

‎He explained that he also called the chairman of the NURTW Kaduna State to talk to his members to remove their vehicles so that the road will be free.