Scores injured as armed thugs invade Anambra market

 

Scores of traders were injured dur­ing the weekend when armed thugs numbering more than 40 invaded Nkpor New Auto Spare Parts Market near Onitsha, Anambra State. 

Traders scampered in dif­ferent directions for safety, forcing business activities to ground to a sudden halt even as the market was shutdown by security operatives.
The thugs armed with dan­gerous weapons also disrupted the meeting of the caretaker committee in-charge of the market. The market has been enmeshed in leadership crisis for some time now following the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent executives of the market and plans to foist a caretaker committee on the traders, a decision that did not go down well for the major­ity of the traders.
Last Monday, the Chair­man of Amalgamated Market Traders Union, AMAATAS, Chief Okwudili Ezenwank­wo had stormed the market with hundreds of vigilante groups and inaugurated the caretaker committee.
In the ensuing resistance, some traders were injured, vehicles destroyed, and goods allegedly looted.
A source who pleaded for anonymity told us that yesterday’s crisis was a kind of reprisal attack by the sympathizers of those injured in the Monday attack.