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Many Wounded, Goods Looted As Govt officials, Traders Clash In Anambra Market

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No fewer than thirty people sustained injuries, Tuesday, while goods worth about ten million and ten vehicles were destroyed, when some traders opposed to imposition of Caretaker Committee at the New Auto Spare Part Market Nkpor clashed with government officials who were said to have been sent by the Anambra State Government to inaugurate a Caretaker Committee appointed to run the market.
The traders had last week protested against government imposition of Caretaker Committee, suspension of their election, and alleged refusal by the former administration to render account of their stewardship for alleged over ten years of their administration, and appealed to Governor Obiano to prevail on the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade and the Anambra Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, AMATAS to allow them conduct their election according to their constitutional provision.

 

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FG relocates Boko Haram suspects from Ekwulobia prisons

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The Federal Government has moved 47 Boko Haram prisoners in Ekwulobia Prison in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Briefing reporters at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia on Thursday, the State Governor, Willie Obiano, flanked by the leadership of the traditional institution, church and market leaders, expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo, for their cooperation in the matter that threw the state into disarray for weeks.

Governor Obiano also commended the citizens of the state for their patience and belief in him to ensure an end to the matter.

He urged them to keep supporting both the state and Federal Government as they continue to work towards citizens’ well being.

The prisoners, according to the Governor, were relocated out of the state on Tuesday.

The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) had on July 13, urged the Federal Government to urgently move the 47 Boko Haram inmates recently relocated to Ekwulobia Minimum Prison in Anambra.

The party’s National Chairman, Dr Victor Ike Oye, asked the government to move the inmates to a more secure facility outside the state or take them back to where they were moved from.

Traders in Nigeria’s South-east also shut down markets in Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi states in protest of the continued stay of the dreaded Boko Haram prisoners in the region.

The protest came despite the assurance by the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, after a security meeting with a 7-man delegation from the National Security Adviser, that the 47 Boko Haram detainees at Ekwulobia prison would be moved out of the state soon.

 

 

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Another Big Fish Decamps to APC, Dumps PDP

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Former Governor of Anambra State, Chinwoke Mbadinuju,has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He announced his decision to join the APC on Monday during a press conference in Abuja.

He said he was upset with the PDP over the shoddy treatment meted out to him and his supporters in the party. He noted that he was confident that Nigeria would fare better under an APC administration with Muhammadu Buhari at the helm of affairs.

Mbadinuju was Governor of Anambra State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003 and was elected on the Peoples Democratic Party platform.

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