Mohammad Bello, FCT minister, has ordered the indefinite
closure of Dei – Dei market following a riot.
Bello gave the order on Wednesday after inspecting the scene
of the incident with Sunday Babaji, FCT commissioner of police, and other
security agencies.
Recall that there was a riot at Dei-Dei on
Wednesday.
While there are varying versions of what led to the riot,
some residents said there was an accident involving a motorcycle around the
market in the area.
The accident was said to have resulted in the chaos that
followed.
During the riot, several persons were seen with what
appeared to be machetes, while shops were razed and vehicles as well as
motorcycles destroyed.
The minister directed the community and the market leaders
to fish out the hoodlums responsible for the crisis.
“The community and
market leaders must fish out hoodlums and bad eggs among them, unfortunately
this time around hoodlums carry arms and they shot innocent people,” NAN quoted
him as saying.
“As a matter of fact, I saw four corpses this is very sad
and totally unequivocally unacceptable in Abuja.
“We have agreed with security agencies that full scale
investigations will be done, and the communities have to be part and parcel of
the solution or else there will be no peace.
”In the interim the timber market and the surrounding
markets, including all the activities on road that have clustered the road and
made it unpassable will all stop untill the technical team reviews everything,
and then we will take the next decision.”
Bello said there was no tribal or religious misunderstanding
because all the leadership of various communities have lived in peace for many
years.
“This is simply the matter of criminals and hoodlums taking
the laws into their hands,” he said.
The FCT police in a statement said it has restored normalcy
in Dei-dei town.
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