Igbo Traders in Ogun shutdown  businesses over murder of Imo woman

Igbo Traders in Ogun shutdown  businesses over murder of Imo woman

By Sampson Uhuegbu

A woman identified as Blessing Eze(Mrs), mother of two, has been stabbed to death in Ogun State.

   The incident occured when some touts began taxing traders over the Eid Mubarak festival of Muslim faithfuls that took place yesterday June 6, 2025, each trader was asked to pay ₦1,500. On getting to Late Mrs Eze, she told them she don’t have money as at the time they came, they should come back, as touts they are, they started destroying her goods, which she dragged one of them and asking him to range her goods properly and come back, not that she won’t pay but she don’t have it as at that time because she have not sold anything. That’s how one of them stabbed her on the chest which later led to her death.

 In an interview, Mr. Emeka, a trader said, “Today, Igbo Market Union at Ifo market in solidarity and mourning shutdown   their business in protest. Saying before this woman’s death, they have been experiencing assault and intimidation from those group of touts. They have declared 4 days mourning which Igbo trader will not display goods rather it will be for protest until relevant authorities intervene on the matter especially the State Government”.

One of the Market members who our correspondence interviewed, narrated what happened to his wife last year, when the son of the Baba Loja(market head) Waheed, stabbed his wife and he involved the Nigerian Police, he was advised to drop the case for the sake of his life that the said boy was highly connected and deadly.