Zamafara Drivers Abandon Highway over Recurrent Bandits' Attacks
- Commuters in Zamfara were left stranded as commercial drivers in the state refused to work
- This is as the workers embarked on a strike to protest the incessant kidnappings and robberies on the 100 km Gusau-Dansadau road
- According to Isihu Ticha, the chairman of the transport union, three drivers were recently killed along the highway
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A report by Daily Trust indicates that commercial drivers in Zamfara state are currently on strike.
The strike is reportedly as a result of incessant kidnappings and armed robberies along the 100 km Gusau-Dansadau road.
According to the report, the highway has remained empty of commercial vehicles for a fourth day on Thursday, April 15, as drivers refused to work.
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Isihu Ticha, the chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Dansadau, speaking to Daily Trust explained that the industrial action was to draw the attention of authorities to their plight.
Ticha went on to note that three drivers were killed while four have been kidnapped along the highway recently, Daily Times reports
The NURTW chairman added that bandits seized a total of 16 motorbikes within a week. He also noted that kidnappings and armed robberies take place on the highway almost on daily basis.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that no fewer than 10 kidnapped victims have been rescued from the clutches of bandits by the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji at Yenyewa village in Zamfara following a tip-off.
The coordinator, Defence Media Operations made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, in Abuja.
The troops had on Sunday, December 20, responded to a distress call on bandits’ activities in the area and engaged them in a gun duel.
In another report, Governor Bello Matawalle revealed how a community in Zamfara state resisted an attack by bandits.
The governor who spoke through his deputy chief of staff, Bashir Maru, on Friday, March 5, said villagers in Ruwan Tofa community resisted and killed some of the bandits, who attacked them on Thursday, March 4.
According to the governor, Ruwan Tofa and a neighbouring village in Maru local government area of the state were attacked by the bandits.
Source: Legit.ng
