………discovers live, expanded ammunition.
Motorists plying the Benin-Auchi highway were on Thursday stranded as drivers playing Benin Ehor Auchi Abuja road in the early hours blocked the road on what they call government neglegence in fight against insecurity.
Narrating their odeals, one motor park chairman, who didn’t disclosed his name, said they can no longer bear the continuous kidnapped of their colleuges and passengers along the route.
During the blockage, the drivers allegedly saw a man ran into the bush from an abandoned building which made them to give him a hot chase but couldn’t catch up with him, and as a result live and expanded ammunition were discovered in the abandoned mud house at ugha Community, allegedly used as a store house and hideout for bandits.
They promised to block the road untill the government address the insecurity issues on that road.
Meanwhile, by press time, the Edo State Police Commissioner, Phillip Ogbadu, has has arrived the scene of the blockage with his men, and are doing on the spot assessment of the situation while calling for calm as appropriate measure will be taken by his command to bring about free flow of traffic and respond to the plight of the drivers while investigation will be carried out..