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WAR ZONE? In South-East, Army is forcing travellers to come down from vehicles at checkpoints

SOLDIERS of the Nigerian Army, deployed under ‘Operation Udoka’, are forcing travellers in the South-East to disembark from vehicles at numerous checkpoints that litter the region, checks by The ICIR have shown.

On getting to any of the checkpoints manned by heavily armed soldiers on major highways in the region, vehicles – both commercial and private – would stop to discharge passengers. The passengers, mostly travellers, will then trek across the checkpoint. On getting to a considerable distance beyond the checkpoint, they will stop and wait for the vehicle that was conveying them.

The driver will then move the vehicle past the checkpoint to meet the waiting passengers, who will subsequently return to their seats in the car.
The journey will continue until the vehicle gets to the next checkpoint, where the process will be repeated.

The ICIR’s correspondent, who experienced the situation while travelling across the South-East states, noted that the development frustrated motorists and travellers in the region.

During a trip from Enugu to Umuahia, Abia State capital recently,, the commercial bus boarded by The ICIR correspondent was made to stop and discharge passengers at eight different checkpoints.

At each of these checkpoints, passengers – both young and old, male and female – had to come down and trek to the other side to wait for the vehicle.

Interestingly, vehicles and passengers are not searched at the checkpoints. But The ICIR correspondent observed that the heavily armed soldiers were alert as they watched the passengers walking past the checkpoints.

During the morning period, when a lot of people are travelling, the checkpoints are usually crowded with so many passengers who disembarked from several vehicles. The vehicles, mostly buses, which had discharged the passengers, will also queue up. They wait until the passengers have walked past the checkpoints before driving through, one after the other, to pick up their passengers.

The ICIR correspondent observed that when the volume of traffic at the checkpoints is high, some passengers have difficulty identifying the particular vehicle they boarded.

However, The ICIR further noted that motorists, especially commercial transit bus drivers, and travellers, are not happy with the development.


The repeated disembarkation at numerous checkpoints is not only stressful, it also wastes time, making the journey last much longer than it should.

The journey from Enugu to Umuahia, which ordinarily should be less than one hour, lasted more than two hours.

“Is this a war zone? It is only in war zones that you can witness this,” an aggrieved passenger muttered as travellers waited for their vehicle to move past the checkpoint and pick them, to continue the journey.

Many passengers expressed anger at the situation. A passenger, who said she has gotten used to the situation, being a regular traveller on the route, explained that she starts her journeys two or three hours earlier than usual in order to meet up with appointments. “If not, you will not arrive on time. You have to add extra one or two hours in order to meet up,” the woman told other travellers.

An old woman, who complained of arthritis, could barely walk across one of the checkpoints and had to be supported by sympathetic co-travellers.

Operation Udoka is the Nigerian Army’s response to the insecurity in the South-East. In Igbo, the language spoken in the South-East, ‘udoka’ means ‘peace is greater’, or ‘peace is better’. The operation, under the control of 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, has troops drawn from military and paramilitary formations.

The Chief of Army Staff has handed down clear directives to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army operating in synergy with other security agencies to ensure robust patrols to dominate all flashpoints and emplace measures to ensure citizens are free to go about their legitimate businesses.

In line with its mandate, the presence of troops of Operation Udoka at numerous checkpoints in the South-East is aimed at ensuring security and stabilising the region.

While residents, particularly those undertaking trips on highways, express annoyance at being made to disembark from vehicles and trek at military checkpoints, a security source, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told The ICIR that passengers are ordered to come down from vehicles because of several instances where unknown gunmen in vehicles attacked military and police personnel at Checkpoints.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/war-zone-in-south-east-army-is-forcing-travellers-to-come-down-from-vehicles-at-checkpoints/

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Even the whole lane is blocked.

How does this stop unknown gunmen from operating?.

Why subjecting our people to hardship?

They only thing they are good at doing.

Terrorism don finish Northern Nigeria bt na for Southern Nigeria dem dey like show muscle pass.

Let dem go and mount roadblocks and checkpoints inside those terror-ravaged villages and local governments in Northern Nigeria.

South East is under chokehold.

The military is suffocating us.

Enough is enough.

Tinubu is not Buhari that will take nonsense from the IPOB terrorists

Well deserved.

Weren't you lot targeting and attacking soldiers and police officers quite recently?

If that isn't an act of war i don't know what is.

What else do you expect from a miltary that lacks intelligence?

One of the objectives of the average Nigerian army is to punish innocent civilians.

Roboto11:
Well deserved.

Weren't you lot ,targeting and attacking soldiers and police officers for quite recently?

If that isn't an act of wari don't know what is.

This one thinks every traveller on roads in southeast is Igbo. All tribes that go through those roads are subjected to such cruel treatment.

This is madness. Why not block the road entirely so that we we will know that the someone won't pass the road again

Nothing new here, it happened in portharcourt during the golden days of militants. When the likes of Saboma George and his island boys held portharcourt to ransom, measures were taking to protect ordinary citizens including raising your hands when you approach a military checking point, shoot on sight, shoot now and ask later and more.

Like Igbos terrorists like Hamas terrorists, you become legitimate military target once you take up arms and start killing soldiers. As such, they must be eradicated even with heavy civilian casualties, they must be exterminated.

MasterJayJay:
What else do you expect from a miltary that lacks intelligence?

One of the objectives of the average Nigerian army is to punish innocent civilians.

Nigerian military is very useless and criminally minded. I won't be surprised if they are extorting the travelers

MasterJayJay:


This one thinks every traveller on roads in southeast is Igbo. All tribes that go through those roads are subjected to such cruel treatment.

Yes, others are aware of the dangers of going to the east and they are grateful to the soldiers for keeping them safe.

DiscoverID:
Nothing new here, it happened in portharcourt during the golden days of militants. When the likes of Saboma George and his island boys held portharcourt to ransom, measures were taking to protect ordinary citizens including raising your hands when you approach a military checking point, shoot on sight, shoot now and ask later and more.

Like Igbos terrorists like Hamas terrorists, you become legitimate military target once you take up arms and start killing soldiers. As such, they must be eradicated even with heavy civilian casualties, they must be exterminated.

Because this uncivilized measure happened in Port Harcourt, it should be allowed to happen elsewhere

Roboto11:


Yes, others are aware of the dangers of going to the east and they are grateful to the soldiers for keeping them safe.

I'm not from the East but I ply the east on regular basis because of my kind of job, as well as the fact that I married to Igbo lady from Imo state. If you don't visit East, don't say other people don't, remain in your oshogbo. Hate filled dingbat

Generalmystic:
I'm not from the East but I ply the east on regular basis because of my kind of job, as well as the fact that I married to Igbo lady from Imo state. If you don't visit East, don't say other people don't, remain in your oshogbo. Hate filled dingbat

Shatap.

Ibo boy denying his ancestry.

Soldiers would continue to control the Eastern corridor until normalcy is guaranteed.

South East is the new Gaza strip?

kettykings:
South East is the new Gaza strip?

more like it.


When you need sheik Gumi , Pastor Adeboye, and other men of God to lend their voices to the evil going on in South East Nigeria, they won't, they would prefer talking about Palestine and Israel

Generalmystic:
Because this uncivilized measure happened in Port Harcourt, it should be allowed to happen elsewhere

The only uncivilised measures here is from ipob terrorists forcing everyone to sit at home every Mondays. Maiming, kidnapping and killing innocent civilians. Attacking military establishment without remorse and killing many officers. You fucck around then you find out.

okoro:
Tinubu is not Buhari that will take nonsense from the IPOB terrorists

When the terroris are dealt with as usual you'll be here wail and cry like an infant who is suffering from acute malnutrition.

Marauding skull mining terrorist !

Roboto11:


Shatap.

Ibo boy denying his ancestry.

Soldiers would continue to control the Eastern corridor until normalcy is guaranteed.

Whatever makes you feel good, that's okay but I'm pretty sure yours is the highest level of mental derailment

Emergingnation:
When the terroris are dealt with as usual you'll be here wail and cry like an infant who is suffering from acute malnutrition.

Marauding skull mining terrorist !

Those guys hypocrisy stinks to the high heavens

Generalmystic:
Whatever makes you feel good, that's okay but I'm pretty sure yours is the highest level of mental derailment

Yawn!

He wan speak grammar by force.

DiscoverID:


The only uncivilised measures here is from ipob terrorists forcing everyone to sit at home every Mondays. Maiming, kidnapping and killing innocent civilians. Attacking military establishment without remorse and killing many officers. You fucck around then you find out.

And what cursed all that?. I remember when Nigerian military use to kill them for carrying flags and placards.
At what point did Ipob turned violence?.

Roboto11:



Yawn!

He wan speak grammar by force.

Okay

DiscoverID:

Like Igbos terrorists like Hamas terrorists, you become legitimate military target once you take up arms and start killing soldiers. As such, they must be eradicated even with heavy civilian casualties, they must be exterminated.

Bokoharm and iswap have killed more soldiers. Why are they not setting same useless method in the north?

Supremos:
more like it.


When you need sheik Gumi , Pastor Adeboye, and other men of God to lend their voices to the evil going on in South East Nigeria, they won't, they would prefer talking about Palestine and Israel

My problem is not really the clergy or ministry people but how the Nigerian military had been reduced to a stop and search military, what then is the work of the police forces.

kettykings:


My problem is not really the clergy or ministry people but how the Nigerian military had been reduced to a stop and search military, what then is the work of the police forces.

In civilized countries, you won't ever see their military.

Here military is doing the work of police while police is doing the work of armed robbers, extorting drivers

MasterJayJay:

Bokoharm and iswap have killed more soldiers. Why are they not setting same useless method in the north?

Don't mind that hypocrite

I'm kinda of wondering, Seun Mukina and Nlfpmod, why is it that this evil in South East is being treated with levity?. Why is not on frontpage?. A known mod was here earlier and the post that was gaining traction was shoved into obscurity because it has to do with the plight of south Easterners whom he so much hate.
That's terrible