With the recent mayhem unleashed during the pro-Biafra protest in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Wednesday, in which nine people died and several properties destroyed, members of the Hausa community in the commercial city who fled the town are still in hiding.
The baristas, shoe menders, green grocers, barbecue sellers and allied workers, who are of northern origin, Punch reports, had yet to open shops in the city.
Most of the victims were still in the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police barracks in the area, apparently for fear of attacks.
During the Biafra fracas, the Onitsha central mosque, a nomadic school and many other properties belonging to the Hausa community were destroyed.
A resident of the city said after the crisis, most of the Hausa men only came out in the night to do brisk businesses and disappear again.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ali Okechechukwu, when contacted, said the Police were in control of the situation, urging the people of the state to go on with their businesses without any fear of molestation.
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