IRATE youths protesting the killing of a youngster by an articulated truck driver in an automobile accident in Oba-Akoko along the Akure-Abuja road yesterday barricaded the highway causing hardships for motorists and travellers.
For several hours, the youths blocked the road and dug deep trenches across the highway to protest the killing which some of them claimed was becoming too rampant on the only direct link between the Ondo axis of the South West and the Federal Capital Territory.
A long line of vehicles, running into several kilometers, were formed on both ends of the town's centre where many of the protesting youths massed and were calling on authorities to put speed breakers on the road to reduce vehicular speed and put an end to incidences of vehicles running over the residents.
Pleadings by several prominent indigenes of the Oba-Akoko to dissuade the youths from protesting without breaking the road or disrupt vehicular movement fell on deaf ears as they continued to prevent vehicles from passing through the otherwise sleepy community and insisting that they were going to create the breakers by digging trenches across the highway.
As at the time of filling this report, a team of anti-riot and regular policemen led by the Ondo State Deputy Commissioner of Police, Alkali Shaba, was about persuading the youths to leave the road with assurances that their request would be granted by the authorities.
Some of the policemen were in fact seen filling the trenches and removing the obstacles on the road to allow free flow of vehicular movements as the youths began to leave the scene in trickles
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