Traders seek Otti's intervention as tension envelopes Ariaria Market (Video)

Traders in Ariaria International Market, Aba, on Thursday staged a protest over alleged multiple taxation.

The traders urged the State government to intervene in order to avert escalation of the crisis in the market. “We are here because we are aware that our amiable Governor and father, Otti doesn’t have this kind of agenda; this kind of thing is from the PDP, those we defeated in election, yet they are now oppressing us here.”

“He classified the traders based on four groups, and that is what he will use to determine where shops will be allocated to you. “We ask that an investigative committee be set up as quickly as possible to avert a breakdown of law and order in Ariaria Market.Another trader, Mazi Obioma Onyekwere said they were paying different levies in the same market.

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