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Yoruba, Hausa Traders Reject Ejection Order In Onitsha
Tension is mounting in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State following ejection order on Hausa and Yoruba traders along the Bridgehead market.
The traders, who described the state government’s directive as biased and ethnically motivated, argued that they are legitimate tenants to the Federal Ministry of Housing adding that they have valid receipt of payment that will expire by 2014.
The spokesmen group, Chief Lateef Balogun and Tanimu Ibrahim, alleged that the state government had concluded plans to lease the plot of land to a major transporter in Onitsha, adding that they were not given any alternative site to relocate to.
The duo, stated that the move to throw them out of the place of business the have occupie for over 40 years without plan for compensation or relocation is a subtle way of sacking the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the state.
According to them, “what they are planning to do is to subtly sack us from the state but as Nigerians we have the right to live and do business in any part of the country without fear of intimidation. We shall resist any plot to stampede us out of the market by agents of government over a flimsy excuse.”
However, when contacted the Special Adviser to the Governor on Parks and Markets, Chief Sylvester Nwaobualor, said that the move to eject the traders was not political or motivated by ethnic considerations but a strict measure to clean up and beautify the Bridgehead which serves as the gateway to the state and the entire Southeast.
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