Mile 12 crisis: Community turns to ‘ghost town’ as situation remains tense

Twenty-four hours after a bloody clash between Hausa traders and their Yoruba hosts left at least 10 people dead in Mile 12 area of Ketu, Lagos, the atmosphere on Friday was still like a graveyard with malevolent ghosts.

At Church Avenue and Omojuwa Estate environs for example, bullet marks were seen on at least three buildings including a church while more than 20 shack structures housing several low income earning families were reduced to rubbles.

However, angry and sad are an understatement of the way residents felt when our correspondent visited Mile 12 on Friday.

Leader of the community, Mathew Omojuwa, a traditional chief, said that many residents were about going to bed after the initial mayhem during the day on Thursday when some Hausa youths numbering over 30 stormed the area again around 11pm, armed with dangerous weapons and attacked residents and burnt down houses.

According to him many of them are alive only by the grace of God. He said the situation could have been very bloody.

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