Tanker Drivers’ Protest Blocks Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

[Sunexx360]

  Hundreds of commuters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were yesterday stranded for close to 13 hours following a protest fromtanker drivers who barricaded the expressway in protest against the humiliation they suffered in the hands of a police escort.
  National Mirror gathered at the scene of the protest in Ogere-Remo, yesterday that a team of police officers attached to a Very Important Person (VIP) had shot at the tyres of a trailer laden with Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) with registration number JIGAWA XC 405 DUT at about 11.00 pm Wednesday night.
  Three tyres of the Oando marked trailer, heading towards Ibadan that was said to be having a stopover at the Ogere trailer park, were seriously damaged, thereby preventing it from moving and consequently blocked the road.
  In an attempt to show solidarity with the driver of the affected trailer, other trailers plying the road took to the other side of the expressway, barricaded it, which led to a serious traffic jam at the Ogere axis of the expressway.
  In an interview with journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Ogun State Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident, stressed that the police officers involved were not from his command.
  It, however, took the intervention of police officers from the Ogun State command, led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Abdulkadir, to restore normalcy to the expressway as he was able to engage the trailer drivers in negotiations before they agreed to take their tankers off the road to pave way for other commuters.
  As the tension created at the scene in Ogere-Remo was dousing, National Mirror gathered that the police authority had agreed to pay the N250, 000 cost of replacing the damaged tyres to pacify the protesting tanker drivers.

[Nifemi Donald]

they are not serious.so because someone made a mistake, every1 on the road shld pay for it