{"id":36623,"date":"2021-11-03T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36623"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:46:14","slug":"standstill-on-abuja-keffi-road-as-military-checkpoint-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36623","title":{"rendered":"Logjam on Abuja-Keffi road as military checkpoint resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Yemi Oyeyemi<\/strong>, Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of civil servants and artisans are currently stranded on the ever busy Abuja-Keffi road as operatives of the Nigerian Army mounted a checkpoint against commercial and private vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers, who left their homes as early as 5 a.m for their respective working places, are trapped inside their vehicles as at 10;20 a.m when&nbsp; our reporter visited the scene of the snarl in traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our correspondent observed that the chaotic situation has forced several people to abandon their vehicles to trek several kilometers in order to meet up with appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was noted that the road was blocked at the Kugbo Mechanic Village section of the Abuja axis.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No reason has yet been offered for the return of the military checkpoints, suspended for about two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the commercial drivers who spoke with our correspondent lamented the sudden return of the military on the road and pleaded with government to look into their plights.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of this report, the long queues of vehicles which started at Kugbo Mechanic Village has reached Masaka in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expectedly, commercial motorcycle riders have been making brisk business charging as much as N1000 to convey passengers to Kugbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja. Thousands of civil servants and artisans are currently stranded on the ever busy Abuja-Keffi road as operatives of the Nigerian Army mounted a checkpoint against commercial and private vehicles. Workers, who left their homes as early as 5 a.m for their respective working places, are trapped inside their vehicles as at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4119,4120,1204],"class_list":["post-36623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-abuja-keffi","tag-checkpoint","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}