{"id":73353,"date":"2025-08-16T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73353"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:37:46","slug":"truck-drivers-block-abuja-lokoja-road-over-police-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/16\/truck-drivers-block-abuja-lokoja-road-over-police-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Drivers Block Abuja-Lokoja Road Over Police Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heavy-duty truck and tipper drivers on Friday barricaded the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway to protest alleged extortion by police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Union treasurer Kasim M. Gana said the protest followed the seizure of a member\u2019s truck by the local Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who allegedly demanded \u20a650,000 for its release.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was reportedly on his way to load timber when he was stopped at a checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers mobilised around 11:43 a.m. and blocked the busy highway, accusing the DPO of repeated harassment, including chasing a truck with a patrol vehicle that got damaged weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>They also cited a separate incident where a truck with brake failure rammed into drums at the same checkpoint along the Abaji-Toto Road.<\/p>\n<p>However, FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ajao Saka Adewale, dismissed the extortion claims, saying the truck was impounded because the driver lacked valid vehicle documents.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the situation was under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Heavy-duty truck and tipper drivers on Friday barricaded the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway to protest alleged extortion by police officers. Union treasurer Kasim M. Gana said the protest followed the seizure of a member\u2019s truck by the local Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who allegedly demanded \u20a650,000 for its release. The driver was reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73355,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73353\/revisions\/73355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}