Borno demolishes GSM market (photos)

Bulldozers were deployed to the area and placed in the market frontage, with some mobile police operational vehicles stationed at strategic locations across the Post-Office area of the metropolis. Photo by Ibrahim Sawab

Ibrahim Sawab, Maiduguri

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:18:59 WAT

Vendors and technicians dealing in mobile phones, tablets and accessories at the Maiduguri GSM market in Borno State were denied access to their shops by security operatives preparatory to demolishing the market.
Photo: Ibrahim Sawab

Bulldozers were deployed to the area and placed in the market frontage, with some mobile police operational vehicles stationed at strategic locations across the Post-Office area of the metropolis.
Photo by Ibrahim Sawab

Groups of angry looking youths, who were apparently denied access to their shops, stood helplessly watching from a distance while the Police and other security personnel barricaded routes around the popular Jagwal market.
Photo: Ibrahim Sawab

Many young entrepreneurs operating at the market, who were separately interviewed yesterday, denied having an idea of what led to blockage of roads leading to Kasuwar-Jagwal and locking them out of their shops by Police.
Photo by Ibrahim Sawab

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