Aba, a dying city  on   /   in People & Politics 1:52 am   /  
Comments  By Ochereome Nnanna On Monday, September 27, 2010,
another unthinkable crime took place in Aba, the legendary
Enyimba City and former “Japan of Africa”.  I say “former”,
because the city is dying a slow, painful death like an accident
victim suffering internal haemorrhage. Schools have closed.
Banks have shut their doors.  Even before they finally closed
shop, bank workers had been reporting to work in “roughs”. They
would wear dirty jeans and old shirts and slippers and travel to
work either trekking or conveyed by tricycles.  Before I sat
down to write this sad article, I had reports that the motor
parks were full of people leaving town for their respective
villages. And what does “leaving town” mean?  Leaving for the
weekend, or leaving for good? Leaving for good means most of
them are now refugees – persons displaced by rampaging hoodlums,
whose latest act of cowardice was the abduction of kindergarten-
level school children going to