Troops of the Guards Brigade, Nigerian Army on Sunday night conducted thorough searches on all vehicles using the Airport Road axis as one of its proactive measures to tame any imminent terror strike in the bud.
According to reports, the troops created checkpoint between Gosa and Centenary City resulting in heavy gridlock with many road users clueless about the cause of the roadblock.
Mostly affected were road users coming from the Gwagwalda and Kuje axis as well as the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport with the gridlock said to have stretched as far as the Soka area close to the headquarters of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
A similar gridlock was also said to have occurred along the Dei-Dei/Kubwa expressway but it was gathered that a Trailer fell on the road, blocking three-quarters of the express road thereby causing the gridlock.
It was gathered that the deployment of the military detachment to the airport road may not be unconnected with the ongoing security efforts to foil any attempt by criminal elements/terrorists to infiltrate the FCT.
