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Tension has eased at Shasha community in Ibadan, Oyo State after the violence that broke out at a popular foodstuff market last week.
Though the market is still under lock and key as directed by the state government, residents were seen on Wednesday moving around freely.
The easing of tension came as the Oyo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, urged the state government to consider the possibility of relocating the market to bigger site; and governors of Kano, Kebbi, Zamfara and Niger, who visited him, promised to contribute to the rebuilding of the market.
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SOUTH-West governors, yesterday, took their troubleshooting efforts to Shasha in Ojoo Area of Ibadan, advising the residents of the area to avoid reprisal attacks with their Hausa neighbours. The crisis started, weekend.
Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who was led to the Shasha market by his Oyo State counterpart, Governor Seyi Makinde, urged the Yoruba elders in the area to prevail on the youths to allow peace to reign.