The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Mohammed Aliyu has said that the police have arrested five suspects in connection with the violent disturbances at New Artisan Market, Enugu.
Also, the commissioner said that he has ordered an investigation into the incident to bring to justice all miscreants whose acts of violence disrupted human and economic activities at the market.
Spokesman of the police in the state, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said this in a statement issued Saturday in Enugu.
Daily Trust Saturday reports that traders at the market, majority of them of Northern origin, had on Thursday, crippled commercial activities in the market, as they staged a protest against the state government’s plan to relocate them to another area.
Recall that the market has been engulfed in a series of crises, occasioned by government’s quit notice following a court order obtained by a citizen of the state, one Chief Emeka Nnaji whose late father’s own parts of the land is located in the troubled land.
However, the live stock traders are maintaining that they are not vacating the market, basing their argument on the fact that they were duly allocated the place.
