The two rival groups, Palm Oil Association of Nigeria and United Palm Oil Dealers Association, have been battling for the leadership of the market as well as who should control the market's revenue collections since August 2023. But all hell broke loose on Thursday when the two rival associations engaged each other in a violent clash, which landed three members of United Palm Dealers Association in hospital, with two of them in critical state.
gathered that trouble started in the market on Thursday afternoon when the two groups contested who should collect revenue from a Jos, Plateau State-bound truck loaded in the oil market with palm oil. While one group said it was its right to collect the revenue, another group said it should collect the money and mobilised its men to lock the gate of the market so as to prevent the loaded truck from leaving the market.