Traders at Ile-Epo market in Alimoso area of Lagos State are lamenting the loss they incurred during Sunday’s scavengers and miscreants clash.The clash, which lasted for about four hours, left four persons injured, makeshift structures destroyed and goods worth millions of Naira damaged.Many of the traders are yet to get over their losses.He said other yam sellers lost large quantities of yam.
A trader selling soaps, detergents and provisions, who preferred anonymity, said the suffering was too much.“We are suffering in this market. The fight has affected us. My goods were destroyed over what I knew nothing about. I was not involved. This is unfair.”“I saw my soaps, detergents and provisions on the floor damaged on Sunday. I was helpless. There was nothing I could do, so also were other traders.”The trader said they now do business at the market under fear.
Another trader, Ekundayo Lateef, who sells rice and beans at the market with his mother, said he could not leave his goods because they belonged to his mother.
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