Hear What Truck Drivers Said About Jonathan

Ngerian truck drivers have, been affected by Boko Haram insurgency have criticised the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. 

According to them he has not handled the Boko Haram conflict well and has been complicit in the group's growth over the years.  Some say his complicity lies in his neglect of the  North-East.

Some even refer to him as "the  chairman of Boko Haram", BBC reports.

Some of the truck drivers who survived a journey through Boko Haram territory relax out of the the sun under the porch of a building.

One of the driver identified as Mr. Abubakar said;  "president Jonathan is just guilty as those Boko Haram killers because he has chopped off all the money to repair roads.
"The killings are too much and have been going on for long.  President Jonathan is not doing anything. We hope he will leave - we want change".

Some of the drivers carry petrol, diesel, or kerosene to and from Maiduguri, the city of the heart of Islamic insurgency in the North-East and the capital of Borno State.
Gathered at the Ogere Trailer Park,  about 50km (30miles) north of Lagos, they say they have all been affected by the six year conflict.
The drivers can spend several weeks at Ogere Trailer Park as they wait to get clearance for Lagos Port.

Most of  them have wives,  children and have been kidnapped and their homes destroyed by insurgency.
Speaking about their perils as truck drivers plying the Lagos - Maiduguri route,  Abubakar and his colleagues said it takes two and a half days when a tanker is empty and four and a half days when full.  Aside the dangers of Boko Haram, there are so many potholes on the roads.
"Ten of my colleagues who ply this route have been killed in the last three weeks.  The millitants stopped them and cut of their heads with an electric chainsaw and burn the trucks.
"Boko Haram is usually only interested in commandeering smaller vehicles, sometimes the fighter will take the lorries,  but must of the times they burn them", said Abubakar.

According to Kullima Ali, 18, who has been a moto boy for four years , it is very difficult to tell the millitant soldiers, as they dress in camouflage, with only their eyes visible.

Kullima Ali,   lost two of his brothers in the Boko Haram attack. He explained that he is now his family bread winner as the insurgents killed his brothers and burnt their house in Maiduguri in January 2013. He now has only one sister and his mother.