BREAKING: Tanker Drivers Block Lagos-Benin Highway

Tanker Drivers Have Blocked Lagos-Benin Highway.

Report reaching OnyxNews Nigeria states that drivers of petroleum tankers and other heavy vehicles have blocked the Benin-Ore highway, at Ofosu, over the killing of two drivers by suspected herdsmen on Tuesday night.

Ofosu is the boundary community between Edo and Ondo states.

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The herdmen were said to have also cartered away with an undisclosed amount of money stolen from their victims.

The angry drivers who blocked the ever-busy highway at the military checkpoint, refused all plea made to them by other motorists, to leave the road.

Sources added that operatives at the military checkpoint have abandoned their posts, due to the massive trouble in the area.

It was gathered that the angry drivers are insisting that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State must come to address them before they will vacate the road.