A woman trader from Auchi in Edo state slumped after losing N2.3 million cash at Abaji main market of Abuja.
Yakubu Musa, a witness, said the incident happened on Friday, around 9:45 am when she went to the market to buy farm produce.
According to him, the woman, who always came from Auchi every five market days in Abaji, was busy measuring melon and groundnuts inside sacks when the money she had inside a sack suddenly disappeared.
Musa said the woman, after measuring grains inside several sacks and was about to pay the traders, could not find the sack with her money in it.
“She actually kept the money, which according to her was N2.3 million, cash inside a sack and as she was measuring melon and groundnut, the sack containing the money suddenly got missing,” he said.
He said the woman slumped after she discovered that the sack containing her money had gone missing, adding that it took the intervention of some traders in the market to revive her.
“In fact, she burst into tears and fell on the ground shouting that the missing money was a loan she collected in Edo State to do business,” he said.
According to DAILY TRUST, another woman burst into tears at the market when her half bag of maize got stolen by yet to be identified hoodlums inside the market on the same day.
Reports said that the woman rushed to sympathize with the woman trader who lost N2.3 million at the market when the yet to be identified hoodlums took her half bag of maize.
Credit: Daily Trust
