By Chidera Odii
Market women at Itam market yesterday took to the highway to register their anger over double taxation on Ticket.
The women who barricaded the two sides of the Calabar-Itu dual carriage ways singing songs of sorrow, lamented on the incessant attacks and often times, beaten up by some group of people who they alleged collect ticket fees more than five times a day.
They said that unlike what was obtainable when they (market women) were paying twenty naira less than thrice a day, in the period of slight boom than this time of hardship when more five different groups could invade the market demanding one hundred, two hundred and three hundred naira respectively.
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