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The FCT Minister, Mohammad Musa Bello has visited Dei-Dei community following the mayhem that left five persons dead on Wednesday afternoon.
After a brief interaction with community and market Association leaders, the minister confirmed five persons dead after hoodlums inflected injuries looted and set ablaze the building material market, leaving goods worth billions of naira destroyed.
The Minister who was visibly worried with the level of damage, arrived the Dei-Dei Market at about 7:30pm and ordered indefinite closure of the markets.
Narrating their ordeal, the traders and community leaders dismissed reports of alleged ethnic motivated clash between the Igbos and the Hausa-fulani residents of the area.
Trouble started when a commercial motorcyclist crash with another and unidentified woman was hit and died on the spot.
After a brief interaction with the traditional rulers and Leaders of the three different market the Minster ordered an indefinite closure of the markets
The Minister who was accompanied by the FCT Police Commissioner Sunday Babaji and heads of other sister security agencies said “unfortunately, this time around hoodlums carried arms and they shot innocent people.
The minister said he saw four corpses and ordered fullscale investigation into the fracas
Mohammad Bello promised to repeat his visit to Dei-Dei in no distant time, precisely in the afternoon and thereafter summon all community and Market Association leaders for a meeting where decision will be taken against future occurrence
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