Residents of Kado Kuchi, a slum in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja have been living in palpable fear for four days after a clash with scavengers.

Daily Trust had reported how a scavenger was said to have been killed in self-defense by a resident that he plucked out his eye during a fierce fight in the area on Wednesday.

The scuffle started when a phone snatcher suspected to be a scavenger waylaid a resident of the area to dispossess him of his phone and valuables. The man, however, defiantly refused to hand over his phone to the scavenger.

“He (scavenger) then used a knife and…