Calm Returns To Lagos Market After Thugs & Traders Clash

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Reports say trouble started after traders at Alaba international market refused to pay taxes...

 

Calm has returned to Alaba International Market after thugs and traders clashed earlier today. 

Videos and pictures from the scene showed some traders with injuries allegedly inflicted by thugs around the market.

Reports say trouble started after traders at Alaba international market refused to pay taxes to the thugs. 

According to the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State Rapid Response Service and men of the Ojo Police Division are on the ground at the location and are being supervised by the Area Commander Festac, ACP Igbafe Afegbai.

SP Hundeyin says there is no cause for alarm as the police will continue monitoring the situation.