According
to journalist, George Odok, a woman in Calabar begged a trailer driver
to crush her after her goods were seized by government officials.
Narrating the event, George wrote,
“Kill me after you have destroyed my business, woman who
enters under a trailer to be crushed tells Cross River State
Commissioner for Environment.”“A mild drama happened today in Calabar in front of the Oando filling
station when the Cross River State Commissioner for Environment led a
team of enforcement officers to confisticate items sold by petty traders
infront of the filling station.Residents in Calabar, who ply the Calabar highway are aware of this
petty traders who usually stand infornt of the filling stations to sell
fruits and other small scale items.When the commissioner and his men seized the goods from the women and
dump them inside the trailer to drive away, this woman under this
trailer went beneath the trailer and asked the driver to crush him after
her N5,000 business had been taken away from her.Feelers have it that the state government had earlier asked petty
food and fruits vendors along the carnival routes to evacuate their
businesses for free flow of movement and neatness, while some areas had
been used in planting green grasses to beautify the city.What becomes of this woman and others whose small scale businesses had been taken?”