Normalcy returns to Kwara community after security operatives, drivers clash

Date: 2021-01-12

Normalcy returned to Ilesha-Baruba community in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara on Monday after a Friday clash between security operatives and commercial vehicles drivers.

The clash between the security operatives and drivers in the area left at least three persons dead and several people injured from gunshots.

Reports have it that the crash occurred on Friday during a misunderstanding over "bookings" between the operatives mounting roadblocks on the Ilesha-Baruba/Chikanda highway and commercial drivers plying the route.

Also read: Gunmen ambush couple in Ughelli, kill lady The corpses of the deceased, which had earlier been deposited at a morgue in Saki, Oyo State, were brought into Ilesha-Baruba on Sunday night for burial.

NAN correspondent who went round the community reports that the residents have returned to their normal businesses.

Marketmen and women were seen thronging into the international cattle market located in the area.

Operatives of security agencies were sighted patrolling the area to further douse tension.

The security operatives have also temporarily withdrawn from the checkpoints.

The Emir of Ilesha-Baruba, Prof. Halidu Abubakar, told NAN it was regrettable that a small misunderstanding between the residents and security operatives could lead to an unfortunate loss of lives.

Abubakar blamed the incident on pent-up grievances between the operatives and members of the transport union.

The grievances, he said, was due to alleged extortion of commercial motorists by the operatives.

The traditional ruler, however, commended the prompt response of the police in containing the spread of the crisis.

He said that the community enlisted the help of elected political officials from the area to fund the treatment of the injured,

"This is because the treatment of gunshot injuries is always expensive. You know the majority of us here are Muslims. So we have taken the issue as an act of God.

"We are all families one way or the other and we have been able to talk to the families of the deceased," the emir said.

He commended Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and the Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly for their support during and after the crisis.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Vasolar Consortium     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Yahya Mohammed     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Kwara Central     Magaji Are     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Iyaloja-General     Shoprite     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Cornelius Adebayo     Samuel Adaramola     Nnazua     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Henry Olaosebikan     AbdulHamid Adi     EFCC     Tunde Akanbi     Ghali Alaaya     George Innih     Babs Iwarere     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Saheed Akinwumi     A.E. Afolabi     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Village Alive Development Association     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Emir Of Ilorin     Haleeman Salman     Kwara State Governor     Abdulazeez Arowona     Adebara     Inside Kwara     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Flights To Ilorin     Ibrahim Gambari     Lithium     Ilofa     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Aminat Omodara     Yusuf A. Usman     Overland     Ado Ibrahim     Omu Aran     Amos Bajeh     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Odolaye Aremu     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Noah Yusuf     Saad Omo Iya     Bilikis Oladimeji     Daud Adeshola     Egbejila     Ndakene     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Kola Shittu     Dumagi     College Of Education     Omotosho     Charles Ibitoye     S.O. Opowoye     Sulyman Buhari     Kwara Liberation Group     Olaitan Adefila     Mohammed Abdulahi     Fola Consultant     Magaji Erubu     Unicontinental Construction Company     Ahmad Belgore     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     KWTV    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Salihu Ajia     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Adesoye     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Usman Alkali Baba     Amule     Kwara State Polytechnic     Tsaragi/Share     Police Commissioner     Oniyangi     KSIRS     Egbejila     Raimi Iyanda     Kwabes     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Tunde Saad     Ariyo     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Kubra Kazum     Obuh     Okin Biscuit     Magaji Are     Erubu     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Ibrahim Akaje     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Elesie Of Esie     Agbarere     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Kwara United     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Ishola Abdullahi     Mahee Abdulkadir     Sabitiyu Grillo     Aliyu Alhassan     Olayinka Olaogun     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     SSUCOEN     Ado Bayero     School Of Nursing     Iliasu     Makama Of Ilorin     Metro Park     Oniwasi Agbaye     IHS     Taofeek Ibraheem     Olayinka Are     Gbemi Saraki     A.O. Belgore     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Share/Tsaragi     Unicontinental Construction Company     Kazeem Gbolagade     Oya State     Gobirawa     NaAllah     Kulende-UITH     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Bankole Omisore     NULGE     Shettima Of Ilorin     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Kayode Yusuf     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Ope Saraki     Yahaya Seriki     Dan Iya     Lithium     Labour Party     Laolu Saraki