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ALEXANDER E. J. UKOH, M.D.,F.A.C.S.
>5. Aba Traders Declare War on Robbers
>---------------------------------------------------------
>THE violent disturbances in Aba, the commercial nerve centre
>of Abia State has worsened with the killing of about 20
>persons suspected to be members of the dreaded "Mafia Squad"
>or "Down Below" as they were called.
>
>The group was rounded up in various locations in Aba by
>warring traders who also besieged the gang's main hideout
>at Emejiaka and Nwasinmuo compounds in Ngwa Road and set
>their ghetto on fire.
>
>Also burnt in the mayhem was the filling station located in
>front of Emejiaka compound which according to reports, the
>hoodlums used as base to attack unsuspecting and innocent
>citizens, including several cars and houses.
>
>On Wednesday, the mayhem escalated, thereby surpassing the
>chaotic situation the town has experienced in recent months.
>
>The present feud started last week when a group of gangsters
>that have terrorised Aba for some time now, robbed and
>killed a Yoruba shoe trader arriving from Lagos to make some
>purchase and chopped off the hand of another. Angered by the
>massacre, shoe manufacturers in Ariaria International Market
>launched an attack and killed the gang leader.
>
>The Post Express learnt that Aba has known no peace since
>the killing of the leader of the gang, as his colleagues
>have been harassing innocent citizens and forcing traders who
>are not indigenes of Aba to leave town or face their wrath.
>
>With this development, traders in Ariaria Market hired some
>buses and drove down to Ngwa Road, said to be the gang's base,
>in company of some powerful native doctors and ammunition for
>a showdown.
>
>On arrival at the gang's hideout, four of them were captured
>and taken to an unknown destination and killed, while a man
>suspected to be their marabout was killed on the spot. After
>setting the houses and cars ablaze, the irate traders went
>round the town, destroying houses and hotels said to harbour
>criminals.
>
>Reports said that Aba is now calm following the fleeing of
>hoodlums from the town and the killing of questionable
>characters by the mob.
>
>Various spots known as the hoodlums' operation points, such
>as Samek road, Faulks Road, Ariaria/Express Road junction,
>Umuehilegbu Road, as well as Umule Road, Aba are all calm,
>following their desertion by men of the underworld.
>
edward oparaoji, Dr
This brings tears to my eyes. Makes me proud to be an Igbo. Once again
our brethren have risen to say no to injustice. Injustice done to one is
injustice done to all.
eddie.
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they are doing is not for Igbos alone but for nigeria. They are showing us
what to do when we have been patient and we get fed up. I hope we learn!!
(people next stop illegal police check points used for extortion!!)
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