Thugs invade Kano phone market, injure traders, loot shops

Tension broke retired astatine the fashionable Farm Centre telephone marketplace successful Kano aft astir 200 suspected thugs stormed the area, attacking traders and stealing goods.

The attackers, said to beryllium equipped with cutlasses and different weapons, were allegedly accompanying a Kano Central senatorial aspirant, Abdussalam Abdulkareem (AA Zaura), to an lawsuit astatine a adjacent hotel.

The marketplace chairman, Jamilu Bala Gama, said the incidental happened astir 1:25 pm, adding that the unit besides dispersed to adjacent markets specified arsenic City Centre and New Dubai.

“They were many, astir 200 oregon adjacent more. They attacked guiltless radical and marketers, injuring them and stealing their property,” helium alleged.

Traders were forced to unopen down their shops and fly arsenic the attackers remained astir the lawsuit area.

Gama said specified incidents are becoming common, accusing politicians of moving with equipped thugs and causing unrest.

“We program to instrumentality ineligible enactment against politicians generating hostility successful our markets by moving astir with hoodlums,” helium added.

He besides said constabulary officers who responded to the country were attacked, with immoderate reportedly injured.

Thugs invade Kano telephone market, injure traders, loot shops