Threat of a reprisal attack In a weeklong violence rocking the Hausa and Yoruba communities in Ogijo, a sleepy town in Ogun state,is creating serious tension.
ThePageNews gathered that trouble started on Monday when a dog owned by an Hausa boy picked from the meat bowl of a meat seller.
While running away with the meat, the meat seller threw a knife at it and inflicted a cut on the dog.
Piqued by the development, the dog owner it was gathered, returned to avenge the injury inflicted on the dog.
In the process, he was said to have stabbed a meat seller in the abdomen, thus making his intestine to gush out with the rice meal he eat shortly before the incident.
The boy is said to be on Oxygen in LUTH at the moment.
The meat sellers operators, it was gathered, reported the case to the police on Monday evening as the incident occurred at about 7.00pm
According to information available, the police pacified the meat sellers, asking them to wait till the following day when action will be effected on their complain. Before any action could be taken on Tuesday however, the dog owner was said to have launched another attack, this time however, with a large number of his fellow Hausas.
They were said to wield all kinds of dangerous weapons including guns and arrows.
The Tuesday incident it was gathered, left many injured with properties destroyed
According to the meat sellers, the attackers numbered over 300.
The meat sellers it was further gathered, returned to the police to demand the arrest of the leader of the attackers, with one Biggie or Orobo prominently mentioned.
Threatening to retaliate, the meat sellers have vowed to take the laws in thier hands if the police fail to act accordingly by bringing the attackers to book.
The police, it was gathered, have so far been able to maintain peace in the community.
