A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the exercise, reports that the affected traders were seen lamenting their plight in angry tones.
They claimed that their stalls were demolished without formal notice from the AEPB.
Bola, one of the affected traders who sell clothes and tailoring materials, accused the management of the market of deliberately withholding information about the demolition.
She alleged that the management refused to inform the traders of the notice given three months ago by the AEPB to demolish make-shift stalls in the market.
She said that the leadership of the market had been warned by the FCT authority not to erect stalls under high tension wire, adding that the failure of the management of the market to inform the affected traders might have prompted the demolition.
Malam Suleiman Dairu who sells beverages and other assorted drinks at the market, accused officials of AEPB of being insensitive to the plight of the affected traders.
He said that the exercise had deprived them of their means of livelihood.
He blamed the management of the market for not disclosing the outcome of its meeting with officials of the AEPB.
Dairu called on the FCT Minister to relocate them to a more befitting place, adding that as Nigerians they should not be discriminated against.
“We are in pains; we cannot continue to live like refugees in our own country, the government should do something to pacify and resettle us immediately,’’ he said. (NAN)
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