SAN FRANCISCO, September 14, (THEWILL) – The tension in Abia State deteriorated on Wednesday night with the torching of the Ariaria Market Police Station in the commercial city of Aba by some yet-to-be-identified persons.
This is notwithstanding the dusk to dawn curfew imposed on Aba by the State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu.
Following the incident, security has been beefed up at the Aba Area Command Headquarters and other Police Divisions in the commercial city. The Area Command headquarters was cordoned off even as vehicles were not allowed to enter the adjourning roads.
Tension has been high in Abia since soldiers trooped to Aba and Umuahia, the state capital, on Sunday, purportedly on a mission to apprehend leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. But the Nigerian Army has denied that the troops are in Umuahia to apprehend Kanu.
Most markets in the city and other businesses have been closed with people staying in their homes as youth unrest spread round the city with the rumour mill buzzing that soldiers burnt houses and killed some residents of Umuode near Aba and its environs.
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