Three days after closing, the well-known Wuse market in Abuja is now open for business again.
The authorities closed the market on Tuesday due to violence that started when a hawker was killed, as reported by News Digest.
Before the market was closed, it caused the burning of roughly ten merchant-owned stores and eight vehicles, including a police van and one belonging to a correctional facility, along with some other market employees.
The market was reopened on Friday at around 12 PM, according to Innocent Obiechina, the Public Relations Officer PRO of the Abuja Market Management Limited AMML.
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According to him, the development followed stakeholders’ ongoing discussions that took place on Friday at CP Bennett Igwe, the commissioner of police for the Federal Capital Territory.
He mentioned that considerations of economic and security nature played a role in making the decision.
“Traders association and the market management as well as other stakeholders reviewed the issue, and agreed that the market should be immediately reopened.”
“It was understood that the longer the facility was kept locked, the more people would suffer, and there could be multiple effects to that that could better be imagined” the PRO said, according to daily trust.
