The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, has raised concerns over the mass arrest of traders in Ozomagana Building Materials Market, Onitsha, Anambra State. Intersociety said it was unacceptable that a civil dispute involving Modebe Enterprises Limited and the Ozomagana Building Materials Market Association was being criminalized by the police. “We are deeply disturbed by the dangerous criminalisation of a purely civil matter,” Intersociety said, adding that the situation had resulted in “series of arbitrary police arrests, unlawful detentions and acts of intimidation.” It added: “The crisis has led to repeated police harassment, arbitrary arrest and detention, and criminalisation of what is circumstantially a civil matter.” Intersociety claimed that since November 15, 2025, more than six separate arrests had been carried out against leaders of the market.