Angry Villagers Block Osinbajo’s Convoy In Abuja

Aggrieved protesters blocked the convoy of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo along Umaru Musa Yar’Adua expressway in Abuja on Tuesday morning.

The vice-president was heading to the airport when his convoy ran into a barricade at Goza village.

Residents of Gbagyi village had converged on the major road connecting the airport to the city, to protest the alleged invasion of their land by the military.

The security aides of the vice-president failed in their bid to appease the protesters, forcing Osinbajo to alight from his car.

Some of the protesters hailed the vice-president as he approached them.

It would be recalled that less than a month ago, the protesters had stormed the National Assembly, demanding intervention of the legislators on the same issue of forceful takeover of their ancestral lands without prior notification by the military.

-TheCable