However, some of the affected traders expressed fears that their goods will not be safe if they are offloaded at night, and that it could put their businesses at risk. Abdulrashid Mai Dalan Zaranda, an ex-auditor of the market association said the market opens at 8am and closes by 6pm, adding that it is inconvenient for them to offload their goods at night.
Alhaji Khalid Yusuf, another trader said, “If we offload our commodities at night, they will be dumped outside the market as it closes at 6pm. So, we are afraid that the commodities can be stolen. If we don’t want it to be stolen, then we must engage the services of guards that will be looking after them. This will be a burden to us.”
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Traders at the Bauchi Central Market in Bauchi, on Sunday, lamented the Bauchi State Road Transport Agency (BAROTA)’s order directing them to only offload their commodities brought by trailers at night time.
Speaking to journalists, the traders, who decried the order, submitted that offloading their goods in the night was not a good decision taken by the agency, considering its safety of the goods.
Some of the traders, Malam Ibrahim Arab; Alhaji Khalid Yusuf and Abdulrashid Mai dalan Zaranda, informed that the market opened between 8am and 6pm, adding that giving the time the market closed daily, it would not be convenient for them to offload their goods from trailers at pointing out that it is inconvenient at night.
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The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, at the weekend, imposed curfew on Effium community to avert further killings of farmers by unknown gunmen.
Recall that Effium community has since three days been engulfed by bloody clashes that erupted between two tribes, Effium speaking persons and Ezza indigenes.
The bloody clashes between the two tribes had, according to investigation, resulted in the killings of over seven persons and hundreds of houses razed.
Consequently, the Governor Umahi on Sunday imposed curfew on the area to avert further escalation of the crises.
Umahi made this known in a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation, Barr Uchenna Orji.