Commercial Bus Drivers Protest Extortion By Task Force In Imo

Commercial Bus drivers have protested extortion by the different government task force in Imo state.

The commercial bus drivers took their protest to the Imo state government house on Friday in the bid to show their grievances.

It was gathered that the bus drivers started gathering themselves all from different streets of the state capital while some of them drove from Wethedral, Douglas, Mbaise Road, Okigwe road and Akwakuma as well as Amakohia to government house to register their grievances over the continued extortion in the name of task forces.

The commercial bus drivers in the state lamented that the task force collect about N3,000 per day from each driver as settlement.

They also lamented that there were no marked bus stops on the road as to say exactly where they will stop to pick or drop passengers.

According to some of the protesters, one Onyeuwa Timo, “This is very painful in Imo state, we don’t have any place to rest. Nobody to complain to the kind of maltreatment that we have suffered in the hands of these task forces people.”

According to another driver who claimed to be a student and a father of two children, who goes with the name Samba said: “There is no peace for us the bus drivers. We have families and we need money to take care of them. Please I beg the government to please stop these men they are punishing us in Imo state.

“They come and force you to pay them and they also wait for you on the other road and ask you to pay again.”