By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan

SOME violent Hausamen
yesterday threw sanity to the
wind as they unleashed
terror on some policemen in
the popular Bodija Market in
Ibadan leaving two persons
dead and a police post burnt.

Also, eleven vehicles, nine
motorcycles were either
burnt or vandalized. The
bloody clash forced
thousands of marketers and
traders out of the market
abandoning their shops and
wares. Some butchers whose
shops are close to the place
left their meats on the table
and ran for dear lives.

When they besieged the
police post, all detainees
under investigation were set
free. The quick response of
security men which included
policemen, the security team
tagged Operation burst, men
of the Nigeria Security and
Civil Defence Corps, soldiers
checked the escalation of the
crisis.

When Saturday Vanguard got
to the scene of the incident
yesterday, all the stalls, shops,
banks, filling stations in the
area were deserted, while
the troubled spot was
barricaded by fierce-looking
policemen.

According to one of the
officers on night duty at the
police post, he said the
genesis of the crisis was the
clash between a Hausa man
and a Fulani who were
fighting over a commercial
sex worker in Bodija.

These people want to turn peaceful Ibadan to Jos just becoz of a prostitude! Na wa oo!