A fully loaded truck belonging to a soft drink manufacturing company has been set ablaze at Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia State.
The incident occurred even as a combined team of soldiers and policemen patrolled round the major roads of the city.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that the van which was set ablaze at the popular 7UP Junction, Omoba road, Aba was the first of its kind in the area since the sit-at-home order began in Aba.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the truck driver was on his way to deliver supplies when hoodlums enforcing the sit at home order blocked him and set fire on the truck fully loaded with soft drinks and cartons of water. The driver and his assistant abandoned the burning truck and escaped unhurt.
Goods worth millions of Naira were lost as some people scrambled for the crates of the soft drinks as the inferno raged.
The hoodlums warned that they would burn any vehicle that defies the sit at home order on the day Nnamdi Kanu’s suit is to be heard.
“Today that Mazi Nnamdi Nnamdi is going to court some of the companies decided they will work. This is why we burnt the truck to ashes. Today, they’ve understood how serious things are. We will also burn any truck we see on the road any day Nnamdi Kanu is going to court,” they said.
Efforts to get the reaction of the Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, Superintendent Geoffrey Ogbonna, was yet to respond to text message and call sent to his mobile number.
