Jebba: 1 dies as traditional leadership rivalry turns violent

Date: 2016-07-07

Crisis broke out in Jebba, Moro local government area of Kwara State yesterday, over a traditional leadership crisis which claimed one life while three other persons were wounded by gunshots. The deceased was identified famously as Pastor.

Eyewitnesses claimed that the dispute was a renewal of an age-long disagreement between factions loyal to the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Abdulkadir Alabi Adebara, and members of an opposing camp simply identified as Okedares. It was gathered that pandemonium broke out moments after the Eid el Fitiri prayers when some indigenes believed to belong to the Okedare group allegedly began making some sinister displays at the front of Adebara's palace.

As efforts to stop the display were allegedly rebuffed, it was gathered that one popular man in the town identified as Baale Osogun, also decided to stage his own version of display at the same venue. Irked by the developments, some loyalists of the monarch were said to have attempted dispersing the crowd allegedly by force, leading to serious violent resistance.

One of the eyewitnesses said, "It was just as this moment that we started hearing the sounds of gunshots at Oke-Oja where the palace is sited. The shots felled three people who were promptly rushed to a nearby hospital. One of them died moments later. He was one man we call Pastor. The other two are in critical conditions. Besides, a vehicle and a motorcycle at the scene were burnt beyond recognition."

Although spokesman for the state's police command ASP Ajayi Okasanmi said he was yet to be officially briefed on the incidence, he confirmed that policemen from Bode Sa'adu, headquarters of the LGA, had been drafted to the town to douse further tension.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olokoba Sulyman     Iqra Books     Okanlawon Musa     Balogun Fulani     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Folaranmi Aro     Haleeman Salman     2023 Elections     Mustapha Akanbi     YAKOOYO     Elekoyangan     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Press Release     Al-Hikmah Radio     MalHub     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Post Utme     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Ijagbo     Tunde Oyawoye     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Sam Onile     Wahab Isa     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Osi     Saka Saadu     Maigida     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Turaki Of Ilorin     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Tayo Alao     Bola Magaji     Amoyo     Emmanuel Bello     Oyelere Oyinloye     Seun Bolaji     Obayomi Azeez     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Rotimi Oyedepo     Mufti Of Ilorin     Madawaki     Babatunde Idiagbon     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Idowu Aremu     Magaji Are     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Gbenga Awoyale     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Yemi Sanni     Kwarareports.com     Alaiye     Elese Of Igbaja     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Kwara State Fire Service     CUTI     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Universal Basic Education Commission     Shettima Of Ilorin     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     MATTA Girls Foundation     Mumeen Lah     Ayinde Oki     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Bayo Lawal     Patigi Regatta     AGILE Programme     Orisun Igbomina     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Bankole Omishore     Adegoke Bamidele     Bashir Badawi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kunbi Titiloye     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Earlyon Technologies     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Abdulhakeem Amao     Baba Isale     Ahmed Dankaya     Maigidasanma     Adekunle David Dunmade     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Taofeek Sanusi     Olaitan Buraimoh     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Hausa     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Aliyu U. Tilde     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Hassanat Bello     Muhammed Danjuma     Moshood Mustapha     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Grillo     Muhammadu Gobir     Onilu     Dagbalodo     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Curfew     Kwara Apc     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Amada Jidda     AGF Abdulrazaq     Jebba     2017 Budget     Patigi Regatta     Al-Adaby     Olokoba     Wasiu Odewale     Hassan A. Saliu     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Fola Consultant     08001000100     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Onilorin     Yashikira     Olatunde Jare     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     ITEM 7     Igbomina     Ahmed \'Lateef     Abegunde Goke     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Ajia-Bako     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Harrison Osauwagboe     Amuda Musbau     Kassim Babamale     Split Diamond Interchange     Oba Abdulrahim     IFK     Isiaq Khadeejah     Rafiu Olasile     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Seun Bolaji     Tunji Olawuyi     Ijagbo Health Centre     Ganiyu Taofiq     Saad Omo\'ya     CCB     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Yaman     EndSARS     Magaji Nda