Owerri Demolition: Calm Yet To Return

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The noise emanating from the demolition of the Ekeukwu market, Owerri seems not to be one that would soon stop. This is going by the waves of reactions that have continued to trail the incident.

On Wednesday evening, uneasiness reared up again and within the same vicinity of the market where it was alleged there was an attack, this time ethnic. The fight escalated to other areas like the Wetheral road and the Assumpta avenue, leaving people scampering for safety.

Most business owners, especially along the Wetheral road axis as observed, hurriedly locked up their shops for fear of the unknown. Commuters were stranded as crowd built up.

The Owerri indigenes, it was alleged felt angered by the involvement of the people of Ohaji Egbema, another local government area in the state in the confrontation that led to the eventual demolition. So, they set out to attack any person of that area.

Though unverified, it was alleged that the brawl took two lives.

Claims were rife, within the Owerri section of how the state government employed the service of thugs and militants from the Ohaji Egbema area to join the security forces on ground to resist expected opposition to the exercise of 26th August that left a ten year old boy and two others dead.

Although the government and the commissioner of police had come out to deny that there was any death recorded, information circulating in the social media and the situations at the Federal Medical center where most of the injured victims were taken, prove to the contrary.

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