The police arrived in 20 patrol vans at Tarmac or Computer Village in Abeokuta at 5:30 a.m., apparently to enforce a court order obtained by the Ogun State High Court in February 2020.
One Odubela family in Ibara acquired an enrolment order from the Ogun State High Court in order to seek for a writ of enforcement to seize the land housing the phone market.
Tarmac entrance cordoned off by police before the fracas.
Fracas broke out when members of the Mobile Phone Dealers and Technicians Association (MOPDATEC) who are occupiers of the market stalls could not gained access to their shops.
The visibly angry shop owners therefore approached the angry-looking policemen to demand why their business place was shut down.
Caution was however thrown to the wind when the police officers ordered the shop owners to stay away or risk arrest.
This development infuriated the shop owners and mobilized themselves to the scene.
Sighting the crowd of shop owners, the policemen fired stray bullets into the air before discharging tear gas to disperse the angry protesters.
When the chairman of the mobile phone dealers, Ifeoluwa Togunwa got to the scene to calm the protesters, the visibly angry police officers allegedly beat him mercilessly before they took him away into the police van.