It was reported that the trouble started around 8.30 a.m. when some task force members and suspected hired agents stormed their popular ‘White House’ line to collect the N200 levy slammed on them monthly basis by the market executive.
According to an eye-witness, the market agents demanded levy returns from the chairman, who told them that his members have refused to comply with such payment.
This, however, angered the task force men who were said to have pounced on the chairman, beating him to a pulp.
Seeing this, the other traders locked up their shops immediately and mobilised others who joined their colleagues in the mass protest.
Mobile Policemen were later deployed to the scene to put an end to the crisis, while shop owners hurriedly locked up their shops against the rampaging thugs that invaded the market.
Thugs
suspected to be members of the Movement for the Actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) were alleged to have stormed Onitsha
main market on Wednesday, February 11, beating up traders who were
protesting against N200 levy per shop charged by market leaders over the
installation of CCTV camera in the market. - See more at:
http://bizwatchnigeria.ng/thugs-beat-up-protesting-traders-in-onitsha-market/?fb_ref=Default#sthash.4V3thZlf.dpuf
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