Photos : Armed Massob Thugs Attack Onitsha Anambra Market , Injure Scores Of Traders

Several 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 Sunday Sun that
yesterday’s crisis was a kind of reprisal attack by the sympathizers
of those injured in the Monday attack.