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Bello Orders Tanker Drivers to End Blockade of Abuja-Lokoja Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has ordered the immediate reopening of the Abuja-Lokoja-Lagos highway blocked by tanker drivers since Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Mr Bello gave the order on Tuesday through his special adviser on security matters, Omodara Jerry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Tanker drivers blocked the highway following the alleged death of one of their colleagues who refused to stop for a check at a military point around Jamata, close to Murtala Mohammed Bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The driver was said to have stopped his vehicle on noticing that he was being chased, attempted to run into the bush, but fell into a ditch and was seriously injured but later died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The governor expressed sadness over the death of the driver but condemned the action of the tanker drivers\u2019 union. He stated that there were better ways of channelling their grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe guards commander and his men are already on their way to ensure fruitful dialogue with the aggrieved tanker drivers for the possible reopening of the highway,\u201d Mr Bello said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The governor advised security agents to always exercise caution in handling issues to avoid creating a crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps and other security personnel are still battling to appease the drivers to remove the blockade as of the time of this report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">(NAN)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has ordered the immediate reopening of the Abuja-Lokoja-Lagos highway blocked by tanker drivers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[355,34,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-3335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-abuja","8":"tag-kogi","9":"tag-lokoja"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gov. 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