Bloodbath in Enugu State as Igbos
and Fulanis clash in serious battle at the famous Gariki market on Wednesday night,
resulting to the untimely death of two persons, are identified as Ali, a Fulani
and Ifeanyi an Igbo.
According to eyewitnesses, the
fight started as a result of a quarrel over the sum of N100, when late Ali,
came to the abattoir situated in the Gariki market to slaughter a cow.
The witnesses stated that the
proper place for Ali to slaughter his cow is the New Artisan market abattoir,
but decided to choose Gariki market abattoir due to the closure of the New
Artisan market by the state government, after a policeman was murdered by a crowd
of keke riders.
Though late Ali pad the sum of
N400 against the required N500, which angered Ifeanyi, which brought about the quarrel,
which turned violent, in the process, Ali brought out a penknife and stabbed
late Ifeanyi multiple times in his belly, showing his intestines, thus killing
Ifeanyi on the spot.
In a swift retaliation, Ali also
met his death when some Igbo traders around got angry at his barbaric act,
caught him while running away and executed jungle justice on him.
Furthermore, the angry Igbo
traders burnt a mosque situated inside the market, the Hausa/Fulanis go to
worship.
But with the quick intervention of
the State Police Command, more shops and lives would have been destroyed.
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