One unidentified person was feared killed on Wednesday as traders of Ogbete Main Market in Enugu State protested the sealing off of their shops by the state government.
The government took this action because these establishments were accused of adhering to an illegal Monday sit-at-home order, enforced by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Enugu and other states in the South-East region.
Governor Peter Mbah’s administration had previously issued warnings that shops refusing to operate on Mondays due to the sit-at-home directive would face closure.
In response to the development, aggrieved traders whose businesses were sealed off gathered to express their dissatisfaction.
However, their protest was met with the intervention of officers from the Enugu State Police Command, who dispersed the crowd and urged them to return to their businesses, clearing the streets.