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The security operatives have also temporarily withdrawn from the checkpoints.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.

Baba Issa     Gbenga Adebayo     REO CAKES     GANZY     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Sheikh Alimi     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Rotimi Atere     Alfa Belgore     Abdulkareem Alabi     Yusuf Arowosaye     Sidikat Akaje     University Road     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Isiaka Alikinla     Diagnostic Centre     Afeyin-Olukuta     Plat Technologies Limited     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Ayo Adeyemi     Nigeria Customs Service     Ita-Nmo Market     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Ashiru     Neo Mundo Ltd     Lola Ashiru     Suleiman Abubakar     Bibire Ajape     Akanji     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Segun Olawoyin     Kumbi Titilope     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Tunde Akanbi     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Baba Issa Awoye     Kwara Basketball Association     Babata     Tunji Ajanaku     Marafan Shonga     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Halimat Yusuf     Henry Olaosebikan     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Mohammed Ibrahim     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Gurei     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Muritala Awodun     Rex Olawoye     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Twitter     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Rasaq Jimoh     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Sunday Fagbemi     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Olam Food Ingredients     Sardauna Of Ilorin     IF-K     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Olaiya Lawal     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Paul Odama     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Shonga Farm Project     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Isin     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Amoyo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

PAACO-PCL Consortium     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Saheed Akinwumi     CKNG     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Ajayi Okasanmi     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     TESCOM     Solomon Edojah     Eruku     ER-KANG     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Babaloja-General     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Abdulfatai Baakini     Tunde Kazeem     Saidu Kawu     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Orisun Igbomina     IPSAS     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Kwara Apc     Kwara Liberation Group     Magaji Are     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Olam Food Ingredients     Maimunat Oniyangi     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Omar Gambari     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Aso Ofi     Temi Kolawole     Oke-Odo     Hassan A. Saliu     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Gbenga Adebayo     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Kwara Politics     Adegoke Bamidele     Moses Afolayan     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Government High School Adeta     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Timothy Akangbe     Tsaragi/Share     Sarah Jubril     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Omu-aran     Okin Biscuit     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Orisa Bridge     Moses Rahman Popoola     Centre For Digital Economy     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     NIRSAL     Isaac Gbenle     Simeon Sayomi     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Jide Ashonibare     Mohammed Haruna     Bello Oyebanji     NFAI     Popo-Igbonna     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Laduba     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Labour Party     Innocent Okoye     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Old Oyo     Ile Arugbo     Taofik Abdulkareem     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan