Asaba City Mall where the Southern African superstore, Shoprite, is a major tenant, is yet to open for business, as at noon on Wednesday.
This was in obvious fear of reprisal attack by angry mob in reaction to the unrelenting attacks on Nigerians by South African natives in the rainbow country.
Asaba Mall opens officially for business at 9:00am every day, but as at mid-day on Wednesday, the complex was still shut with a detachment of security operatives on ground apparently to forestall any attack.
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When our correspondent earlier visited at about 7.30a.m. the security operatives taking strategic positions based on instructions being dished out by Commissioner of Police, Adeyinka Adeleke, who was spotting a black T-shirt.
CP Adeleke said his men would secure the complex, explaining that the mall was very critical to the economy of the state.
He also assured that the MTN head office along the Asaba-Benin highway was being heavily guarded with armed security operatives.
Adeleke urged residents of the state capital to go about their lawful duties without fear of molestation.
