According to Rita Umeh
"Igbo Traders in Ifo, Ogun State shutdown their business over the stabbing to death of an Igbo Woman.
A woman identified as Blessing Eze(Mrs), mother of two have been stabbed to death in Ogun State. The incident occured when some touts began taxing traders over the Eid Mubarak festival of Muslim faithfuls that took place yesterday June 6, 2025, each trader was asked to pay ₦1,500.
On getting to Late Mrs Eze, she told them she didn’t have money as at the time they came, they should come back. As touts they are, they started destroying her goods, which she dragged one of them, asking them to arrange her goods properly and come back. Not that she won't pay but she didn’t have it as at that time because she hadn’t sold anything. That was how one of them stabbed her on the chest which later led to her death.
So today, Igbo Market Union at Ifo market in solidarity and mourning shutdown their business in protest. Saying before this woman's death, they have been experiencing assault and intimidation from those group of touts. They have declared 4 days mourning which means Igbo traders will not display goods rather it will be for protest until relevant authorities intervene on the matter especially the State Government.
One of the members, who was interviewed by our correspondent narrated what happened to his wife last year, when the son of the Baba Loja(market head) Waheed, stabbed his wife and he involved the Nigerian Police, he was advised to drop the case for the sake of his life that the said boy is highly connected and deadly.
We implore the State Government of Ogun State to intervene and make sure the perpetrators are brought to book. Festival money shouldn't be by force, it should have been something of a free will. Don't forget Yoruba women still travel to Onitsha to buy goods".
-Spot On Media Admin reports directly from Ifo Ogun State.
ME: I have repeatedly opined that the idea of having diverse heterogeneous elements under one roof called Nigeria is vexetiously IMMORAL and counter productive.
The demons of EXTREMISM and TRIBALISM continue to haunt the contraption put together by Britain. May God send Nigeria help from unexpected quarters. LET THE SPIRIT OF THE WOMAN HAUNT HER KILLERS TO THE GRAVE.
