The touts who claimed they working with decongesting unit of a private company engaged by the state government was inaugurated early this week by the State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano.
The touts and some of the officials told the traders that they are officials of the state government when they stormed the market with three buses and immediately descended on the traders, destroying their make-shift shops and wares which they alleged is causing obstruction. Some of the traders who put up some resistance were allegedly beaten to stupor.
The pregnant women who spoke to journalists shortly after the incident said that the touts and their leader told them authoritatively that they are from the Ministry of Transportation, Awka, the state capital.
“When they came, they started destroying our goods, while some of them are pulling down our shops and others were beating anyone who resists them. They told us that they are members of the decongestion unit but they are members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and market touts who disguise themselves.
They later took our wares to their hideouts along the Niger Street before we discovered that they are not government officials,” one of the women said. Some of the traders who were rescued by the policemen from Fegge Division narrated their ordeal in the hands of the touts. Two of the victims Messrs Chika Nweke and Okechukwu who received bottle cuts claimed they demanded between N4, 000 to N10, 000 for the release of any goods confiscated.
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