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Ladipo market shut after clash
Ladipo International Auto Spare Part Market has announced its plans to petition the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Sanwo-Olu, Inspector General of Police and the Chief of Air Staff over the killing of one of its traders in the clash that happened between the traders and the air force officers.
The President General of the association, Jude Nwankwo said this to journalists yesterday at his office in Ladipo Market.
It will be recalled that on Tuesday, there was clash between the soldiers and a trader over Kick start at the popular Ladipo auto spare parts market in Lagos which one trader Felix Nnana Onu dead and four persons presently hospitalized.
Onu, 28 years from Ebonyi State, he deals with Catalyst business. The other hospitalized are: Ifeanyi Enyin, Chindinma Okechukwu, Makwo Ekwuna and Chikezie.
According to him, what happened yesterday is not the beginning of the intimidation, harassment from the military in the market.
Onu said that it is quite unfortunate the incidents that happened yesterday and we have been facing series of problem with soldiers. I believe that this is the time to stop it. I believe by the grace of God, time will come when we will agree not to sell any motor spare parts to any soldiers.
He said “It is getting out of hand. They are taking laws into their hands. We are here talking about kick starter worth #4, 000 and somebody is dead and we don’t how many people that have died. We have some of our traders in the hospital. We are taking this matter to the highest authority to make sure that we get judgment”.
When asked whether the Air Force has made an overture to the market leaders since the incident happened, he said that a meeting was held yesterday with some Air Force Officers but it was evident that they are trying to protect their boys.
“We told them we are leaving their office to make our report to the necessary quarters. As at Tuesday, we aired our views. It is quite unfortunate that Air Force personnel will enter into the market and start to shoot unarmed civilians directly as if they are animals”.
“The intimidation in their office was too much for us and we left”, he said.
He posited further that the association closed the market in solidarity with one member who died and others who are still in the hospital.
“We are demanding for justice”, he said.
“Ladipo Market is the biggest spare part market in the whole of West Africa and for now, we are not talking about money but a life that has been lost”, he said.
In his words, the lawyer to the Aguyi Ironsi International Market Traders Association of Lagos, Barrister Obiora Umeh said that it is enough; we will not allow it lie low. Nobody for now can say the number of persons that have died because we don’t know. The market is a big place and as such when they invaded the market, people were running for safety. The market has been shut down by the association so we can get to the root of the matter.
“We will send a petition to the IG, Chief of Army Staff, Commissioner of Police and the Governor of the state on this matter. Let this whole world know that it is wrong because you are an army man, you cannot take laws into your hands”, he said.
He added that these things have been recurring overtime. We put up a big sign board and is a public notice that whatever you buy as fairly used, there is no guaranteed that you will return it after some time. Once is tested and is working, you take it home.
An witness account, Ajuluchukwu Eseanya said that the incident happened because of the kick starter that the solder bought six or seven months ago, suddenly the thing stop working and he came back to insist as they usually do for a replacement and the matter was resolved but he was not satisfy and the matter went to the public complain committee of the market.
“They were two who came in mufti and efforts were made to attend to him but he was not patience, he left. Someone (Solomon) from the market ran to meet him to plead with him to wait that he will be attended to but he refused.
Eseanya posited that five armed personnel drove into the market and were beaten everyone they see in the market and shot directly at the unarmed traders.
Culled from the Nation News Nigeria
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Photographer alleges he was forced to watch Megan Thee Stallion have sex and was unfairly fired
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A photographer who worked for Megan Thee Stallion said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was abused as her employee.
In the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Emilio Garcia said that after a night out in 2022 in Ibiza, Spain, he was in an SUV with the hip-hop star when she began having sex with another woman right next to him. He was unable to get out of the moving car, and would have been in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country even if he was able. Garcia was “embarrassed, mortified and offended throughout the whole ordeal,” according to the lawsuit.
Alex Spiro, Megan’s lawyer, said she would fight the lawsuit in court.
“This is an employment claim for money — with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her,” Spiro said.
The next day Megan told Garcia never to discuss what he saw and berated and fat-shamed him, the lawsuit said. The complaint also said Garcia, who had already considered quitting because he was overworked and underpaid in a hostile work environment aggravated by Megan’s possessiveness and abusiveness, was misclassified as an independent contractor but treated as an exclusive employee.
Garcia raised those issues in the conversation with Megan, and was fired the following day after four years of working for her, the suit said. He has since filed a job discrimination complaint with the California Civil Rights Department.
The lawsuit, first reported by NBC News, names as defendants Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete; her companies Megan Thee Stallion Entertainment and Hot Girl Touring; and her label, Roc Nation. A defense response has yet to be filed. There was no immediate response to an email seeking comment from a representative of Roc Nation.
Garcia is seeking financial damages to be determined at trial, alleging he has suffered severely both emotionally and physically because of his treatment on the job, the firing and having to witness the scene in the SUV.
Megan, 29, was previously involved in major legal drama — and underwent a torrent of online abuse — as the victim of a shooting by rapper Tory Lanez, who a jury found fired at her feet on a street in the Hollywood Hills in 2020. She testified at the trial where jurors convicted Lanez of three felonies and a judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
Already a major rising artist at the time of the shooting, Megan has since become one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and she had No. 1 singles with “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé, and as a guest on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
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April 15 (UPI) — The body of O.J. Simpson, who died last week at the age of 76, is to be cremated, a lawyer representing the ex-football superstar’s estate said, adding his brain will not be donated for research.
Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s longtime attorney and executor, told the New York Post that his client’s body is to be cremated Tuesday in Las Vegas.
He said Simpson’s family also gave a “hard no” to scientists seeking to examine the former running back’s brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is better known as CTE.
CTE is a rare and little understood brain disorder that is likely caused by repeated blows to the head. According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE results in the death of nerve cells in the brain and the only way to definitively diagnose it is with an autopsy of the organ after death.
Memory and thinking problems, confusion, personality changes and erratic behavior, including aggression, depression and suicidal ideation, are among CTE’s symptoms, the Alzheimer’s Association said.
The disease has been found in those who play contact sports, including football and hockey.
LaVergne confirmed to NBC News on Sunday that at least one person has called seeking Simpson’s brain.
“His entire body, including his brain, will be cremated,” he said.
Simpson died Wednesday following a battle with cancer.
Known by the nickname “The Juice,” Simpson was a NFL superstar during the 1970s, which made him a household name that propelled him into film and television during the next decade.
But his stardom would come crashing down in the mid-1990s when he was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
His high-profile trial lasted months, but ended with his acquittal.
In 2008, he was found guilty on a dozen charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery, and was paroled in 2017 after serving nine years of his 33-year sentence.
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