Truck drivers on Saturday accused security operatives of regularly harassing and extorting them on the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt expressway.
The drivers made the accusation at Ofeme Umuahia while protesting the alleged shooting of their members, a driver and his motor boy, by security men at a roadblock.
The drivers, who blocked the two lanes of the highway for about four hours on Saturday morning, insisted the security man who shot their members was arrested and prosecuted before they reopen the expressway.
They also alleged that they were regularly coerced to pay bribes at different checkpoints on the highway before being allowed to pass.
Two of the trailer drivers, who gave their names as Sule Idris from Jigawa State and John Nduka from Enugu State, said a tanker driver and his motor boy allegedly refused to offer a bribe at the security checkpoint at Ofeme, Umuahia, which according to them, made one of the security men in the checkpoint to shoot the driver in the leg.
According to the truck drivers, when the motor boy in the truck demanded to know the offence of his master, he was also shot by the security man.
Motorists and travellers experienced terrible gridlock as a result of the protest
