- The clash happened at the popular Banex Plaza phone market over the sale of a faulty phone.
Residents and business owners in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja were enveloped by apprehension on Saturday after a fight broke out between soldiers and traders.
The clash happened at the popular Banex Plaza phone market over the sale of a faulty phone.
According to Daily Trust, the soldiers were attacked after a misunderstanding with some persons in the popular market.
“I am not currently in the market but I called my boys at the shop and they told me there was a disagreement between some boy and soldiers,” the media outlet quoted a trader as saying.
In a video of the incident shared by the newspaper, a group of young men were seen arguing with two soldiers.
The young men later split into groups of three and brutally attacked their targets.
A man seen in mufti was also attacked by the mob, but it is unclear if he is also a soldier.
In another video, traders were seen locking up their shops over fears of a reprisal attack by soldiers.
The military authorities have not commented on the incident at the time of filing this report.
It’s however gathered that the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh, said the Commissioner of Police, Benett Igweh has deployed officers of the FCT Intelligence Response Team to the scene of the incident.
“The CP has deployed the Intelligence Response Team to the scene,” Adeh confirmed
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