Following the reopening of Sasha market by Governor
Seyi Makinde on Tuesday, trading activities have returned as both Yoruba and Hausa residents and traders in the community embraced peace.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that wholesale and retail trades were carried out in the market on Wednesday and those whose shops were not burnt accommodated their friends.
Mr Makinde at a meeting with the leaders of the two ethnic groups at the House of Chiefs, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State announced the reopening of the popular market.
“Considering the economic situation and the peculiarities we have with us, I have heard what you said, and we will immediately reopen the Shasha market. They will bring (a) bulldozer to the market today.
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In this piece, WALE AKINSELURE reports the various sides to the Shasha market tragedy in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, and the spirited efforts by stakeholders in forestalling a recurrence.
While the dust was yet to settle regarding the controversial move by Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, against Fulani heders in Igangan, Ibarapa zone, little was it known that an exchange of words between a Yoruba pregnant woman and a tomato Hausa porter and the eventual murder of a cobbler last Thursday at Shasha market, Ibadan, would blast a volcanic ash more than the Igboho situation into the Oyo state atmosphere. The death of one cobbler named Sakirundeen Adeola who intervened in the exchange between the pregnant woman and the porter, later that Thursday, served as the trigger for the mayhem. With alleged ethnic attachments serving as fuel, shops, kiosks, properties at Shasha market were set alight while some individuals met their death. As each day progressed from Thurs
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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has indicated its resolve to support the Oyo State Government in its efforts to rebuild Shasha Market in a drive to restore normalcy.
This indication was given on Tuesday by governors Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi and Abubakar Bello of Niger during a town hall meeting to address the conflict between the Hausa/Yoruba residents of Shasha in the wake of the recent violent clash in the community.
The four Northern governors, who were delegated by the NGF, indicated the readiness to support Governor Seyi Makinde in rebuilding the burnt Shasha market and urged the people to embrace peace. They, however, declared the need for urgent resolution of the crisis for normalcy to be fully restored.