Chief Enibe Francis, the Chairman of Mgbuka Amazu Market, Onitsha in Anambra State, have allegedly been abducted by yet-to-be-identified assailants over circumstances said to be related to Monday’s sit-at-home.
Sources in the market on Tuesday confirmed to Igbere TV that the incident happened on Monday shortly after the chairman had opened the market as directed by the market associations in the state.
It was gathered that the armed hoodlums beat him to a stupor after which they bundled him into a waiting vehicle and drove to an unknown destination and his whereabouts were still unknown.
The state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, had directed market leaders in the state to open their markets on Mondays by observing prayer sessions and cleaning the markets and drainages. The Mgbuka Amazu Market is an old motor spare parts market situated along the heavily deplorable Onitsha-Owerri Road, where vehicles are stuck for several hours in traffic in flood-covered ditches.
Some of the residents who reacted wondered how the hoodlums were able to whisk the market leader away without any resistance.
