Commercial drivers plying the 100-kilometre Gusau-Dansadau road in Zamfara State have gone on strike to protest incessant kidnappings and armed robbery along the road.
Dansadau, a community about 100 kilometers from Gusau, the State capital, is one of the hubs of banditry in the State due to its vast forest that has provided cover for the criminals.
The chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW), in Dansadau, Isihu Ticha, told newsmen that the strike was to draw the attention of authorities to their plight.
The highway stayed empty of commercial vehicles for a fourth day yesterday, as drivers refused to work.
It was learnt that the strike, which began on Monday has left residents of Dansadau and travelers to adjoining communities stranded in the state capital, as they could not access their community, even as it has affected businesses in the area.
However, the State’s Police Command through its spokesman, SP Muhammad Shehu, said the command is up and doing to secure the road, but advised the residents to be assisting the security operatives with vital information on the movement of criminals adding that there are so many checkpoints along the road.
