Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno State, has condemned the attitude of Nigerian soldiers manning Damaturu-Maiduguri road in the state.
Zulum, who was on his way to Jakana, a community where Boko Haram insurgents struck on Saturday, ran into a long queue of vehicles at one of the checkpoints.
The governor, who had had the reports that the security operatives were extorting people came from his vehicle to find out the reason for the queue.
Seeing the soldiers extorting money from motorists on Monday afternoon, the governor walked straight to where some of the soldiers were.
“I’m going to report all of you in this unit. Nobody can tolerate this. Boko Haram is attacking people and you are here collecting N1000 per car,” he said.
One of the soldiers tried to calm the governor down, saying he would look into the case but Zulum fired back, saying: “But we saw them.”
