According to a report by Sahara Reporters, an Igbo woman by name Mrs Eze was brutally murder£d by a lawless tax collector for refusing to pay festival money as at the time they came to her shop.
An eye withness who spoke with correspondents of Sahara Reporters narrated that “The incident happened on Friday being yesterday when some touts began taxing traders over the Eid Mubarak festival of Muslim faithfuls that took place yesterday. Each trader was asked to pay ₦1500.
”on getting to late Mrs Eze, she told them she didn’t have the money as at the time they came, and pleaded that they should come back. As touts that they are, they started destroying her goods, during which she dragged one of them and asked him to arrange her goods properly and come back.
”She said she would pay but she didn’t have the money as of that time because she had not sold anything. That’s how one of them stabbed her on the chest which later led to her death.”
Igbo traders in the market in collaboration with the market union has declared a 4-day mourning period, during which Igbo traders will not display goods and will instead focus on protesting.
They are calling on the Ogun State Government to intervene and bring the perpetrators to justice.
