ABAKALIKI – There was bloody clash between Abakpa main market Traders and Ebonyi state government tax force agents in Abakaliki the state capital.
An eye witness who spoke to news men said that the clash started when officials of the state government tax force entered the market to enforce government directives of compulsory tax payment on some selected traders whom they assumed to be masterminded the traders sue state government to court over Abakpa main market relocation to Margiret Umahi international market.
The care taker committee chairman main market Mr. Peter Oba, while addressing the journalist said the selected traders arrested was said were the one’s discovering others not to pay the government directives of compulsory tax internal generated revenue (IGR)
As the time of filling this report one person was allegedly found laying dead while two persons under calmer, and to curtail the incident it resorted police to indiscriminate arrests of traders who were protesting against the injustice on their members.
The Ebonyi state police public relation officer DSP Loveth Odoh who confirmed the incidents said that police tactical teams headed by two assistant commissioner of police Swarmed the market to quell the emerging clash with there men and peace has returned to the market.
Loveth Odah further said, when briefing the news men that special assistant to the governor on internal generate revenue (IGR) as well as the care taker committee chairman Abakpa market. Mr Peter Oba briefed her that the immediate cause of the clash was due to the refuse of some traders to pay the government generated revenue.
