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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A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima, has appealed to the Yoruba and Hausa communities in Shasha axis of Oyo State, to see the recent conflict that ensued which claimed scores of lives in the market and destruction of property, as an act of the devil, urging families of the victims not take any revenge or think of fighting back.
The clash, which was triggered by an exchange of words between a Yoruba pregnant woman and a tomato Hausa porter and the eventual murder of a cobbler, Sakirudeen Adeola, popularly known as “Adex” last week Thursday at Shasha market, Ibadan, degenerated into the conflicts.
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Aliyu Adamu’s house was one of the many properties burnt in the Sasha Market riot in Ibadan. Three days later, he mustered the courage to check what remained of the duplex.
Accompanied by a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, Mr Adamu suddenly stopped at the gate, his lips quivering. Then he took two steps back and fainted.
“Water! Water!! Water!!!” neighbours screamed in commotion. After receiving first aid treatment, Mr Adamu was helped to a nearby hospital.