A communal clash broke out in the 3rd Avenue area of Gwarinpa, within the city centre of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the early hours of Monday.
This is as videos making the rounds on social media show that several persons have been injured.
Our correspondent gathered that the clash is reportedly between some Gbagyi and Hausa tricyclists.
“The fighting is between Gbagyi and Hausa Keke Napep riders,” a resident told our correspondent on the phone.
“It’s happening on 3rd Avenue where I live, and we can’t go out. Several persons have been injured.” Another resident noted.
The , however, could not independently confirm the cause of the clash as of press time.
Meanwhile, the police could not be reached for comments or reactions as the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, did not respond to phone calls and text messages by our correspondent.
Details later…
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
