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Police In Ebonyi State Apprehend Six Masquerades For Reportedly Assaulting Individuals At Local market
Police In Ebonyi State Apprehend Six Masquerades For Reportedly Assaulting Individuals At Local market
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Six masquerades were apprehended at Okwor Ngbo market in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State for allegedly assaulting individuals and violating the ban on masquerade parades on market days.
According to reports, community leaders had previously cautioned youths against using masquerades to harass market women and extort money from them.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon. Onah Chinedu Ogba, who led the ban, clarified that he doesn’t oppose masquerade displays. In a statement released by his Special Assistant on Media, Joshua Ebenyi, he emphasized that any masquerade found at Okwo Market or major roads would face legal consequences.
“Rt Hon Onah Chinedu Ogba the Deputy Speaker of Ebonyi State and an illustrious son of Abarigwe Umuogudu Oshia Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Government Area has today expressed his ill feelings towards the constant parading of masquerades in Okwo Market and the major roads of Ngboejeogu and had called it a mayhem and a bridge to the successful trading in the general market,” the statement read.
“We are not in any way preaching against the cultural displays such as masquerading but it should be on our various village squares and playground. Okwo market is a place for exchange of goods and services and host people from different place and cultural backgrounds and masquerading distracts the business activities and subjects people to unnecessary tense and running around which has led many to sustaining serious injuries and therefore should be stopped entirely.”
“Consequently, it has been aired and further announced that any masquerade caught around the aforementioned places will face the wrath of the law as hoodlums use the opportunity to display their cultic fracas, witch-hunt people and further give people injuries which is the opposite of the original intents of our forefathers.
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