Lagos shuts market because of planned biafra protest

The Lagos State government on Sunday
sealed the main electrical and electronic market in
Oshodi.
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on
Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement)
Unit on Sunday morning stormed the market to shut
it.
It was gathered that as early as 6 am, hundreds of
armed policemen stormed the market and shut it
down.
Several police vans were stationed around the
market to scare away traders.
Most of the traders had gone to the East to
celebrate the Christmas and New Year festivals.
The market was shut following information that
traders in the market had decided to stage a
protest in support of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who is being
detained by the Department of State Security
Services (DSS).
Before the closure, it was gathered traders were
planning to organise a rally to protest the continued
detention of Kanu.

Similar protests were organised by traders at the
popular Alaba International Market before the
Christmas holiday.
An official of the task force who pleaded anonymity,
however, said they were at the market to seal it due
to the traders nonchalant attitude to environmental
sanitation.
He noted that the traders have taken government’s
threat lightly and did nothing to remedy the
situation.
Most of the traders, however, disagreed with the
government position.
They noted that they have always abide with
environmental laws.
They wondered why government had to shut the
market when most of the traders had gone to the
East to celebrate the Christmas and New Year
holidays.