Shop owners in Sango garage took to the street in the early
hours of today Wednesday 22nd of February 2017 to protest the
injustice done to them by men believed to be men of the Nigerian Customs
Service and the Nigerian Army.
The protest caused vehicular and human traffic up until noon as
the roads were blocked with tires and woods and protesters waving placards with
different inscriptions. Motorists and commuters were stranded up until noon
when the protest died down.
One of the protesters who simply wanted to be addressed as
Osas told us that the men who he said were in uniforms stormed the garage at
around 1am with about eleven (11) trucks and some hilux vans broke some lock-up
shops and carted away with bags of rice, vegetable oil and money that were kept
in the shops.
Afeez, a trader in one of the shops took our correspondent
round to take a look at the locks that were broken and the gloomy market women
sitting around not knowing what next to do.
Attempts to reach the State Police Public Relations, Abimbola
Oyeyemi, on the matter have proven abortive as he did not respond to calls made
to his telephone lines. The road was blocked for about six hours.one of the
market woman said that this wasn’t the first time such is happening but this time around the quantity
of rice moved was much we were told that the security men gardening the shops
exchanged gunshot with the customs offices.
The questions on the lips of many people are; was it right
for the customs officers to come at the middle of the night to break look up
shops and move rice and vegetable oil that has already gotten to the wholes
sales? What where the customs doing at
the border when the goods passed them? Are there better or more civilized ways
of operations the customs could deploy?
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