The largest market in
the South Eastern part of Nigeria, the Onitsha Main Market in Anambra State was
on Saturday shut over fear of Boko Haram attacks, reports ITRealms.
This is coming as some
sources said the shutting down of Main Market Onitsha was in protest of the
alleged plans by the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) to relocate some Boko Haram
inmates to Anambra State, especially to the Onitsha Prison.
Reports reaching our
news desk indicated that the closure of Main Market on Saturday, June 27, 2015,
was actually in protest of Boko Haram alleged presence in Anambra State.
ITRealms gathered that the common
understanding of the Onitsha traders was that President Muhammadu Buhari
allegedly threatened to send the Boko Haram inmates to Onitsha as part of punishment
for not supporting his candidacy during the 2015 elections.
According to most the
traders who spoke to ITRealms on
anonymity, alleged that Buhari said he will revisit the Igbos with Boko Haram,
starting with Onitsha, the hub of commercial activities in the South
East.
Currently, there are
four facilities of the Nigerian Prisons Service in Anambra State out of the 240
located across the country, while Adamawa tops by 17 prison facilities.
The NPS is presently
presided over by Controller
General, Dr.-Peter-Ezenwa-Ekpendu following the confirmation of
his appointment early last December by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Dr. Ekpendu, hails from Ibeku Okwuato in Mbaise Local
Government area of Imo State and before his present appointment as the
Controller General was Deputy Controller General (Administration) since 2012.
However, News Express, reports that Boko Haram
have for six years unleashed mayhem on the Muslim-dominated Northern Nigeria,
but if this allegation is eventually confirmed to be true, then it’s clear that
the terrorists have finally spread their fangs of destruction across the
nation.
Last year, not less than 400 members of the
deadly Islamic sect were arrested in Lagos State by security operatives who
acted on tip-off.
Later in the same past year, some 383
sojourners were arrested in Abia State on suspicion that some of them are
members of the militants which was later confirmed by Abia State security
personnel.
With this latest development, it seems that
the Islamists murderers are poised to export their terrorist acts to the
largely Christian South.
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