Nigeria, March 6 -- Cattle dealers at a market in Abia State have sued the state government over its decision to demolish residential quarters which they erected inside the market.

The market, Garki Cattle Market, is in Lokpanta, Umuchieze, a community in Umunneochi Local Government Area of the state.

The state government had announced a decision to remodel the market and end the practice of cattle dealers and their families erecting residential quarters inside the market.

The decision followed the state government's alleged discovery of over 50 decomposing bodies and over 20 headless bodies around the market in October 2023.

The government, at the time, said the market had become a den of criminals and that part of the measures to bo...