The defendant pleaded not guilty to the changes preferred against him.
The prosecutor said that the complainant was taken to the hospital for treatment and spent N40,000.
In separate interviews on Sunday in Abuja, the bank customers said the move negated the financial inclusion initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
A resident, Ibrahim Ali, appealed to the traders to desist from hoarding food to make more gains.
Residents of Awka, the Anambra capital, have decried what they call the “arbitrary pricing” of petrol by marketers in the state.
The EKEDC official said the warning was necessitated by the assault on one of its field officers.
