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Reprting live from ibadan @bodija market this morning when some soldier tankers ivaded the market to warn the traders


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Though peace had been restored at
Bodija Market in Ibadan where there was
a commotion on Friday as a result of a
clash between Yoruba and Hausa
traders, the Yoruba have vowed to
remain around the market despite its
closure by the authorities of Ibadan
North Local Government.
When Sunday Tribune visited the market
Saturday morning, it was noticed the
traders had shifted their wares from the
market, lining up on both sides of the
U.I.-Secretariat road.
Butchers who had their sales disrupted
the previous day were seen with their
chunks of meat which were obviously
the left-over of the previous day.
Also, there was display of various items
like vegetable, pepper, fish, yams and
other edible things usually sold inside
the market, just as customers also stood
by the road side to haggle over prices
while purchasing items.
Police patrol teams from different
divisions within Oyo State Police
Command were seen standing at
strategic points to prevent entry into the
market as well ensure that there was no
breakdown of law and order.
However, some of the youths who were
seen gathered at the entrance of the
market vowed to resist the attempt of
the Hausa to take over the control of
economy in a part of Yoruba land.
Saheed Baoku who spoke with Sunday
Tribune said they would not allow the
Hausas to catch them unaware. “We
hereby beg all Yoruba to support us in
this fight to liberate ourselves from
oppression.
“We have been idle and can no longer
feed our families because the Hausas
have destroyed our businesses. When
we were going to Maiduguri to purchase
beans, we were selling at cheap price
but when they started bring the
foodstuff in, the price went up.”
He recalled that the Hausa had always
been a problem for them in the market,
recalling that even when Bodija Division
was burnt by members of the ethnic
group living within the market in June
2012 it was the Yoruba that suffered the
consequences.
“Despite the curfew placed on the states
in the North East, the Hausas are still
plying their trade while we sit back at
home, suffering. We believe that enough
is enough,” Baoku, who was surrounded
by other youths, stated.
He spoke further that the issue had gone
beyond what the local government could
handle, appealing to prominent sons of
Yoruba in Ibadan such as Alhaji Arisekola
Alao, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, among
others, to come to their aid.
He disclosed that the youths in the
market got information that the Hausa
had gathered bows, arrows and guns
with which they would attack the
Yorubas and had hidden themselves in a
Hausa mosque close the plank market.
“That is why we decided to come to the
market despite the closure order, so that
they would not go and destroy our
goods,” he added.
A source told Sunday Tribune that two
buses belonging to the Oyo State
government, popularly known as
‘Ajumose Shuttle’ were used in
evacuating Hausa traders out of the
market on Friday, as the Yoruba traders
refused to leave, waiting for an
opportunity to slug it out with their
Hausa counterparts.

Reprting live from ibadan @bodija market this morning when some soldier tankers ivaded the market to warn the traders


Read full story below

Though peace had been restored at
Bodija Market in Ibadan where there was
a commotion on Friday as a result of a
clash between Yoruba and Hausa
traders, the Yoruba have vowed to
remain around the market despite its
closure by the authorities of Ibadan
North Local Government.
When Sunday Tribune visited the market
Saturday morning, it was noticed the
traders had shifted their wares from the
market, lining up on both sides of the
U.I.-Secretariat road.
Butchers who had their sales disrupted
the previous day were seen with their
chunks of meat which were obviously
the left-over of the previous day.
Also, there was display of various items
like vegetable, pepper, fish, yams and
other edible things usually sold inside
the market, just as customers also stood
by the road side to haggle over prices
while purchasing items.
Police patrol teams from different
divisions within Oyo State Police
Command were seen standing at
strategic points to prevent entry into the
market as well ensure that there was no
breakdown of law and order.
However, some of the youths who were
seen gathered at the entrance of the
market vowed to resist the attempt of
the Hausa to take over the control of
economy in a part of Yoruba land.
Saheed Baoku who spoke with Sunday
Tribune said they would not allow the
Hausas to catch them unaware. “We
hereby beg all Yoruba to support us in
this fight to liberate ourselves from
oppression.
“We have been idle and can no longer
feed our families because the Hausas
have destroyed our businesses. When
we were going to Maiduguri to purchase
beans, we were selling at cheap price
but when they started bring the
foodstuff in, the price went up.”
He recalled that the Hausa had always
been a problem for them in the market,
recalling that even when Bodija Division
was burnt by members of the ethnic
group living within the market in June
2012 it was the Yoruba that suffered the
consequences.
“Despite the curfew placed on the states
in the North East, the Hausas are still
plying their trade while we sit back at
home, suffering. We believe that enough
is enough,” Baoku, who was surrounded
by other youths, stated.
He spoke further that the issue had gone
beyond what the local government could
handle, appealing to prominent sons of
Yoruba in Ibadan such as Alhaji Arisekola
Alao, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, among
others, to come to their aid.
He disclosed that the youths in the
market got information that the Hausa
had gathered bows, arrows and guns
with which they would attack the
Yorubas and had hidden themselves in a
Hausa mosque close the plank market.
“That is why we decided to come to the
market despite the closure order, so that
they would not go and destroy our
goods,” he added.
A source told Sunday Tribune that two
buses belonging to the Oyo State
government, popularly known as
‘Ajumose Shuttle’ were used in
evacuating Hausa traders out of the
market on Friday, as the Yoruba traders
refused to leave, waiting for an
opportunity to slug it out with their
Hausa counterparts.

IBADAN– TRADERS in Bodija market,
yesterday, counted their losses in
attacks by unknown gunmen which left
10 of their colleagues dead.
While speaking on the sad incident at
Bodija Market, Public Relations Officer of
the market, Mr. Emiola Akeem, said they
had lost a total of 14 members and more
than N33 million in the two attacks.
FOR SLAIN IBADAN TRADERS—
Sympathisers and relations of 10 Bodija
Market traders killed at Mugunu in Borno
State by members of Boko Haram weep
as their bodies were brought back to
Ibadan, Tuesday. Photos: Dare Fasube.
He said: “On May 5, this year, four of our
members were murdered in cold blood
and N11 million was stolen from them.
This time again, after killing them, they
stole N22 million we contributed to buy
beans and fish.”
Meantime, even as business activities
resumed generally at the popular
market, the section for beans sellers was
deserted with all the shops locked up.
The traders who managed to come only
gathered in clusters discussing the sad
incident.
One of the traders, Mrs. Bola Lawal, said
the action was just to sympathise with
their dead colleagues.
She said: “We closed our shops just to
mourn our dead colleagues. Look at their
shops there. They were very nice and
hard-working young men. See what
these evil people have done now?”
Emiola said he had prevailed on some
angry youths who wanted to attack our
Hausa colleagues, adding: “We cannot
protest in Oyo State. The state
government did not do any evil to us. It
would be unfair if we now go to the
secretariat to protest. It is not the state
government that failed, it is the Federal
Government.”
According to him, his members would
never go to the North again to buy
goods.
He said the relatives of the slain traders
in the first attack were even fighting
them asking why they allowed their
people to travel to North when they
knew the place was not safe.
Vanguard gathered that of the 10 men
killed in te latest attack, only nine
corpses were brought as the 10th body
was said to have been dismembered
through several machete cuts.

IBADAN– TRADERS in Bodija market,
yesterday, counted their losses in
attacks by unknown gunmen which left
10 of their colleagues dead.
While speaking on the sad incident at
Bodija Market, Public Relations Officer of
the market, Mr. Emiola Akeem, said they
had lost a total of 14 members and more
than N33 million in the two attacks.
FOR SLAIN IBADAN TRADERS—
Sympathisers and relations of 10 Bodija
Market traders killed at Mugunu in Borno
State by members of Boko Haram weep
as their bodies were brought back to
Ibadan, Tuesday. Photos: Dare Fasube.
He said: “On May 5, this year, four of our
members were murdered in cold blood
and N11 million was stolen from them.
This time again, after killing them, they
stole N22 million we contributed to buy
beans and fish.”
Meantime, even as business activities
resumed generally at the popular
market, the section for beans sellers was
deserted with all the shops locked up.
The traders who managed to come only
gathered in clusters discussing the sad
incident.
One of the traders, Mrs. Bola Lawal, said
the action was just to sympathise with
their dead colleagues.
She said: “We closed our shops just to
mourn our dead colleagues. Look at their
shops there. They were very nice and
hard-working young men. See what
these evil people have done now?”
Emiola said he had prevailed on some
angry youths who wanted to attack our
Hausa colleagues, adding: “We cannot
protest in Oyo State. The state
government did not do any evil to us. It
would be unfair if we now go to the
secretariat to protest. It is not the state
government that failed, it is the Federal
Government.”
According to him, his members would
never go to the North again to buy
goods.
He said the relatives of the slain traders
in the first attack were even fighting
them asking why they allowed their
people to travel to North when they
knew the place was not safe.
Vanguard gathered that of the 10 men
killed in te latest attack, only nine
corpses were brought as the 10th body
was said to have been dismembered
through several machete cuts.
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