No fewer than 30 traders, including five pregnant women, sustained  injuries following an attack by some miscreants who claimed to be road decongestion officials.

The attackers had stormed shops along Sokoto/Haruna Street Onitsha, near the Onitsha main market and allegedly unleashed mayhem on the traders, beating them black and blue in the name of decongesting the streets
Obiano acknowledging cheers from his supporters at a recent function in the state

According to an eye witness, the attackers, numbering 150,  who arrived  the market  in three buses,  also  looted the wares of the traders as they beat  them for reportedly using their wares to cause obstruction in the market.

Some of the traders, who resisted the attack were allegedly injured with broken bottles, clubs and machetes.The five pregnant women among the  victims  told newsmen that the attackers  claimed to have come from Anambra State Ministry of Transport to decongest the roads/streets in Onitsha South trading areas, adding, “On arrival, they started confiscating our wares and beating us up for nothing because our wares were not on the roads.

“They took us to their hideout in a  plaza at Niger Street, Fegge, and, on getting there, most of our wares were stolen. They introduced themselves to us as road decongestion officials but we later discovered that they were  market touts who only disguised themselves to loot our wares”. The traders, who were rescued by the policemen attached to Fegge Police Division and taken to the station with some of their wares, said some of the injured were taken to nearby hospitals for  treatment.

According to two of the victims, Chika Nweke and Okechukwu, “they demanded from us, between  N4,000 and N10,000 for any goods to be released to the owner”.

It was while they were at the hideout  that the police at Fegge, acting  on a tip-off, stormed the place and arrested their  alleged leader  and one other member.The alleged  leader was said to have told the police that miscreants infiltrated  the operation which resulted in the looting and beating of the traders, adding that he had  authorization  to decongest roads in the area from the state Ministry of Transport.


















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Posted: at 24-05-2015 06:55 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

They are looters, the injured should get well

Posted: at 4-03-2016 06:39 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Na soso terrorist ful naija

Posted: at 5-03-2016 01:29 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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