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Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Imo1stson: 3:37pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Heavy protests in Imo, over extortion by task forces on bus drivers By Chinonso Alozie Hundreds of angry bus drivers on Friday blocked the front of Imo government house, over extortion by different task forces on motorists. Vanguard captured the protesters as they were marching in anger around the government House roundabout in Owerri. The bus drivers started gathering themselves all from different streets of the state capital. Vanguard observed that some of them drove from Wethedral, Douglas, Mbaise Road, Okigwe road and Akwakuma as well as Amakohia to government house to register their grievances over the continued extortion in the name of task forces. According to them, the number of task forces on the road have created too many troubles for them as they now spend over N3,000 in settling groups of task forces. They also lamented that there were know marked bus stops on the road as to say exactly where they will stop to pick or drop passengers. Some of them claimed that they have suffered severally beaten by these groups of task forces wherever they fail to “settle them.” However, this protest is coming after a report by Vanguard on the number of task forces in Imo state. According to some of the protesters, one Onyeuwa Timo, “This is very painful in Imo state, we don’t have any place to rest. Nobody to complain to the kind of maltreatment that we have suffered in the hands of these task forces people.” 2 According to them, the number of task forces on the road have created too many troubles for them as they now spend over N3,000 in settling groups of task forces. They also lamented that there were know marked bus stops on the road as to say exactly where they will stop to pick or drop passengers. Some of them claimed that they have suffered severally beaten by these groups of task forces wherever they fail to “settle them.” However, this protest is coming after a report by Vanguard on the number of task forces in Imo state. According to some of the protesters, one Onyeuwa Timo, “This is very painful in Imo state, we don’t have any place to rest. Nobody to complain to the kind of maltreatment that we have suffered in the hands of these task forces people.” Also, one of them who claimed to be a student and a father of two children, who goes with the name Samba said: “There is no peace for us the bus drivers. We have families and we need money to take care of them. Please I beg the government to please stop these men they are punishing us in Imo state. “They come and force you to pay them and they also wait for you on the other road and ask you to pay again.” https://www.vanguardngr.com/ 1 Like
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Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by netpro(m): 3:55pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Ihedioha, call your boys and thugs to order. Law-abiding and hardworking fellow-countrymen should not be harassed like this. Enough is enough! 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by gaetano: 4:00pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
I want lagosians to also do this because NURTW are just legalized thieves. Oyo state banned that union, don't know what a mega city like Lagos is waiting for. Ambode wanted to do it but Tinubu no gree 2 Likes |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by netpro(m): 4:01pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
gaetano: Instead of reacting to the wickedness being perpetrated by Gov. Ihedioha and his boys, you stylishly side step it to slam someone else. Are you retarded? The same people that cheered when the same thugs harassed Rochas family members, may now be at the receiving end now. 9 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by omenka(m): 4:08pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Thread created over thirty minutes ago yet only two comments have been made on it. Substitute that with an APC state and see how pdp supporters swarm in like bees attracted to honey. Pdp supporters are your Frankenstein hypocrites. 5 Likes |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by omenka(m): 4:09pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Mynd44, Lalasticlala. I presume your day's been very productive. 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by netpro(m): 4:12pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
omenka: Don't mind their hypocrisy. One up there even is already attacking another state. 6 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by MrVegina(m): 4:13pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
[s] omenka:[/s] trash so you want us to leave our pepper soup joint for unproductive comments on nairaland 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by omenka(m): 4:13pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
gaetano:Lord have mercy!!! A situation in IMO state that demands a response and solution from Imo State Government somehow, someway, precipitated a criticism of Lagos state and Tinubu!! This is surely rock bottom!! Ain't no way one could go lower than these guys! 7 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by MrVegina(m): 4:13pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
[s] netpro:[/s] shatap |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by MrVegina(m): 4:14pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
omenka:Hehehehehe |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by omenka(m): 4:15pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
netpro:I saw it and couldn't believe my eyes. Still in shock! 2 Likes |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by OSUigboFlatHead(f): 4:15pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
[s] MrVegina:[/s] Trash 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by OSUigboFlatHead(f): 4:15pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
MrVegina: trash so you want us to leave our pepper soup joint for unproductive comments on nairaland [/s] Rubbish 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by mrvitalis(m): 4:21pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Honestly I don't see any reason a commercial transport operator should not pay up to 15 thousand a month as tax ....we all know they make more than twice that a week |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by JubrinElSudan: 4:22pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
omenka:Oga, the 2 parties supporters are the same. Only you have dropped 3 comments already. Ihedioha should do the needful |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by olasaad(f): 4:28pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
gaetano: Lol Lagos ke what you see in Lagos is small compared to the east. I think Abia drivers should do the same too 2 Likes |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Shawnnn01: 4:29pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Pls who is the bigoted fool ? Is the post about Lagos or the cursed Ihedioha and his develish plan he unleashed on Imo people ? gaetano: 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Nobody: 4:30pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Imo1stson: Vanguardngr.com is a website not a link to the fake news. Hope you realise that Rochas is not going back to Senate after this term. Uche nwosu is a forgotten issue. Transporters pay your dues. Finally stop recycling old news and removing the link. |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by tooth4tooth: 4:37pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
I thought only Okorocha was the problem of Imo state 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by netpro(m): 6:24pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
JubrinElSudan: Funny guy. If it was other way, you and your alternate personalities would be everywhere screaming. 1 Like |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Okoroawusa: 7:10pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
Hahahahaha! *whistles as a walk pass |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by murphyibiam15(m): 7:11pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
lol... Owerri needs a big time surgery to correct it's anomalies..my first visit in Owerri in 2009 was so awesome as the city looked so beautiful but today is a different ball game, roads are bad, gutters are dirty, .. Ihedioha should do something, I like that city |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Obere4u: 8:43pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
gaetano: Oyo state banned nothing.. Only for a change of management. |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by Obere4u: 8:47pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
MelesZenawi: Just hope Ihedioha will prove everyone wrong.. But dude is busy doing nothing.. Only collecting task here and there. You tell the drivers not to pick and drop passengers anyhow, they agreed but they asked for a recognized bus stop, you refused. Anyway., let's hope things will turn out good for Imolites |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:24pm On Nov 03, 2019 |
gaetano:You deserved to be pity. SMH! 1 Like 4 Shares |
Re: Transporters Embark On Protest In Owerri Over Extortion by MrVegina(m): 1:58am On Nov 04, 2019 |
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