Motorists and other road users along popular Nyanya- Keffi expressway suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja were yesterday thrown into panic and were forced to run for their lives as hundreds of commercial motorcyclists known as Okada blocked the road protesting against extortion by soldiers posted to the area. The soldiers have been there since 2014 following two bomb explosions by Boko Haram in Nyanya, the sight light town of Abuja.
The Friday protest which saw the Okada riders burning tyres and logs of wood was due to the demands of the soldiers of “N500 from the
Okada operators,’’ which Vanguard learnt they refused to pay. Some of the motorcyclists who spoke to Vanguard at the scene of the incident claimed that the harassment by the military men deployed to the area was becoming unbearable.
According to them , the issue has become a daily affair stressing that “how much are we making a day that we should be parting with N500 every day. we are tired, we are therefore calling on the authorities concerned to come to our aid by putting the officers on check in the area”.
It would be recalled that it took police men deployed to the violent prone area more than two hours to disperse the crowd. Attempt to get the military authorities to comment on the issue was unsuccessful.

Take military off the streets

Corruption everywhere, innocent men going there business in search of daily bread and some officers will be asking for a fixed fee from their sweat, that's highly unfair. They have out used their usefulness, take them to areas where they are needed.

people dying everywhere.