Abuja — COMMERCIAL activities were, yesterday, paralysed in the industrial town of Nnewi in Anambra State as markets, banks and courts were closed down in protest against incessant kidnapping in the area.
Traders from various parts of the country, who were in the market noted for motorcycle and vehicle spare parts, were taken aback as the town looked a shadow of itself, with traders obeying the directive of their leaders to remain at home to drive home their point for security operatives to rise to the occasion and find solution to the problem of kidnapping in the town.
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