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The aim of this study was to analysed the effect military checkpoints on road transport operations in the North East Nigeria with objectives of investigating various assaults confronting commercial drivers at military checkpoints in the North East and testing the relationship between checkpoints and assaults confronting commercial drivers. Two hundred and eighty-eight questionnaires were administered to commercial drivers out of which two hundred and fifteen were returned and found analysable using descriptive statistics and ANOVA. Results showed that there is relationship between military checkpoints and assaults including flogging, slapping, injured, verbal assault, sacrificial job, threatened to be killed and rolling on ground (0.0000, 0.0004, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0003, 0.0001, 0.0000 and 0.0203 respectively which were all less than alpha value of 0.005). The study concluded that military checkpoints had effect on road transport operations in the North East Nigeria. The study recommended that there should be standard procedures and implementation of technologies that will reduce assault at checkpoints, military-civillian collaboration and dialogue will improve their relationships. Lastly, support services such as military call centres should be provided by the military authority to report cases of soldiers’ assaults while training of military personnels on human rights and conflict resolution should be adequate.
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