Residents and shop owners in the Oworonshoki area of Lagos State have expressed frustration over the destruction of their valuables by a masquerade.
It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:30 PM yesterday when the masquerade and its followers stormed Awolowo Street, Oworonshoki.
The affected traders said their goods were scattered, broken and stolen away during the movement.
One of them Mrs. Nnadi Gloria, who spoke to us at 20 Awolowo street, lamented that the crowd stole her bread, damaged her canopy and spoiled all her buckets destroyed her bottles and other items.
“All those people, they broke my bottles, they stole my bread, they damaged my canopy. You no see wetin is here and all my buckets?”, she said, adding:
“They spoil everything here. Look at the bottle, look at the empty crates when I put here, they damage many things here. Look at the bottle on the road, look at the buckets.”
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Another trader, Mrs. Elizabeth Abba, said she obeyed the Oba’s directive not to display goods, yet her property was still destroyed.
She Further explained that she and her husband were only sitting outside in the evening when the crowd arrived and started breaking everything.
“I did not shade, they say Oba say we should not shade, I did not shade. Only for me and my husband to sit down this evening now, they now come with the masses like this, start breaking the chair, the three chairs that we put here, they break all of them. Break my table, break my POS something. They started breaking everything like that.”
Mrs. Abba appealed to the Oba to intervene, saying she has no money to replace the damaged items.
“I want Oba to help me… I don’t have the money to repair all these things. Even this POS something, I know how much my oga take do am.”
Also speaking, Mrs. Chikodiri Micheal, expressed while crying that her shop was attacked even though she was not open for business.
“This evening, they just come and scatter my things o. It’s not as if I open, they come on my tarpaulin, they carry my buckets and go…
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“The only bucket wey I just bring out, they just carry am go. Just come and see what they do for my shop because me I use money do that tarpaulin o. They scatter my table, they carry everything go.”
Mrs. Blessing Innocent, in her crying and fearful voice said she was not selling that evening but was only warming her food outside with charcoal because she had no gas, when the crowd scattered everything.
“I did not sell today in the evening. I put charcoal outside to cook tomato food, to warm my food. They now come and scatter it, scatter my food. Scatter everything, remove the tarpaulin. I want government to do something about it. I’m crying o, I’m dying… I need help. I need help.”
Residents are now calling on the traditional ruler, community leaders and the Lagos State Government to intervene, investigate the incident and help them recover their losses, as many of them say they cannot afford to start all over again.
Efforts to speak with the Monarch as at the time of filing this report was abortive.
Abdulbaqi Jibreel Ajao
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