The battle before the War? An Ethnic Crisis takes over Dei Dei Market in Abuja

It’s an understatement saying Nigeria isn’t safe at the moment, because right now, everything and everyone is on hinges as one crisis comes up every passing day to disrupt the false peace that the country is left with.

The recent crisis welcomes itself to Abuja; specifically in the popular timber environ known as Dei Dei.

An all out brawl erupted between traders of Igbo and Hausa ethnic group over the death of a woman within mentioned neighbourhood on Wednesday.

The disturbance resulted in significant financial losses to many dealers specifically those who engaged in the sale of plywood and related materials.

The reports have it that an altercation had erupted between Igbo businessmen and some irate youths from the northern parts of the country as a woman fell off a commercial motorcycle and was crushed to death by a driving vehicle. The incident proceeded to result in an unrest that set upon an angry mob to set on fire the motorcycle.

It was the setting ablaze of this motorcycle that was said to have created a melt down from commercial cyclists, who had a mob arranged to attack the traders.

The timber market owned mainly by the Igbo traders were set on fire, creating heavy financial losses on the traders end, with one trader, identified as Obiora Nnaemeka lamenting his loss of timber goods worth over a billion naira in the outbreak of the violence.

Just when you feel the country couldn’t get any lawless, a twist comes up to make us wonder if there lies at all any security outfit to quell crisis like this before they rise.