Fracas in Ekiti....Hausas set Ado-Ekiti main market on fire

Wetin dey happen for this state sef.....A portion of Ado Ekiti Main Market was set on fire yesterday by people suspected to be from the Hausa community who have been having issues with some other members of the community. This is reportedly a reprisal attack after the Hausa community was attacked by mask-wearing hoodlums on Wednesday .... Many shops were burnt down and millions lost in property and goods.

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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital to prevent the ongoing war between transport workers and Hausa traders from spreading to other parts of the state.
This is just as the Ekiti State Police Command has stated that the number of injured persons during the mayhem had risen to 24.
Fayose while addressing the Hausa Community in the Atikankan area of Ado Ekiton Thursday affirmed that the curfew, starting from 6pm and ending at 6am, would begin on Thursday.
He directed all security agencies to arrest whoever failed to comply with the new directive.
He said, “You said you love me, this is the time you have to show this love. I want to plead with you to submit whatever lethal weapon you have in your possession to the police. And if you refuse to do this, whether you are Yoruba or Hausa, the police will arrest you.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us and for the sake of our country, I plead with you to allow peace to reign.”
The state Secretary of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Mr. Akinsola Osundiya, at a briefing with journalists in Ado Ekiti, distanced members of the union from the crisis.
“Our members do not load vehicles in that area, so we were not in anyway involved in the clash with the Hausa traders,” he said.
On his part, the Chairman of Hausa Community in Ekiti State, Alhaji Adamu Imam, appealed to the state government for monetary assistance for those whose property were damaged by hoodlums during the melee.
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