Scores of youths on Friday barricaded the entrance of High court 11 in Gusau, over planned auction of Zamfara State government vehicles.
The peaceful protest started as early as 8.30am on Friday with the youths carrying plycards showing displeasure of the auction of government vehicles.
Spokespersons for the youths, Comrade Aminu Atiku and comrade Usman Salihu both lamented how the state government vehicles would be auction instead of resolving issues amicably.
According to them, they would continue to protest any attempt to auction government properties in the state.
“As youths we are protesting this plan to auction government vehicles, because at the end, we (youths) would be the one at loss as leaders of tomorrow “.
They explained that, the accrued debts which led to the planned auction was incurred by the previous administration some years back.
“We learned that the state government has even started instalmentental payment for the debt, so it is better for both government and the contractor involved to source for other ways but not to auction our vehicle, we would not aggree”.
It would be recalled that a number of state government vehicles parked at the premise of Zamfara State high court, Gusau were lined up for auction following court order to settle debt owed to a contractor by state government.
