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The security operatives have also temporarily withdrawn from the checkpoints.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

Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     New Model Police Station     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Unicontinental Construction Company     Sidikat Alaya     Haliru Yahaya     NURTW     Centre For Digital Economy     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Aliyu Muhammed     Muhammed Danjuma     Okanlawon Taiwo     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Abubakar Lah     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Ilorin Central Mosque     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Kaosarah Adeyi     Lawal Olohungbebe     Yomi Ogunsola     UNILORIN Alumni     Ajase-Ipo     Kwara Hotel     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Wole Oke     Kwara State University Of Education     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Babs Iwarere     Tunji Moronfoye     John Olajide Adedipe     Kazeem Adekanye     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     LABTOP     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     NIRSAL     Mansur Alfanla     Saka Adeyemo     Dagbalodo     Kunbi Titiloye     Ibrahim Abikan     Abdulraheem Olesin     Magaji Nda     Hassan Oyeleke     Halimat Yusuf     Yahaya Seriki     Moremi High School     Henry Makinwa     Bamidele Aluko     Ayegbeni     Ladi Hassan     Kwara TV     Saheed Popoola     Amosa     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     IDPU     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Oluwatoyin Lukman     ER-KANG Mining     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Amuda Musbau     Musa Abdullahi     Toyin Sanusi     SSA Youth Engagement     Ajike People Support Centre     Kwara South     Okin Biscuits     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     GRA    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Quranic Recitation Competition     Mohammed Abdulahi     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Kwara Central     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Forgo Battery     Bahago     Amusa Bello     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Rachael Obisesan     Offa Grammer School     Oniwasi Agbaye     Kwara State Football Association     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Oke-Kura     Muhammed Akanbi     Olabanji Orilonishe     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Imam Gambari     Alapado     Face Masks     Paul Olawoore     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Folorunsho Alao     Lanre Olosunde     Abdulhakeem Amao     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Diagnostic Centre     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Firdaos Amasa     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     BECE     Iyeru Grammar School     Dan Masanin     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Inside Kwara     College Of Education     New Nigeria People’s Party     Quarry Royal Valley     Deji Ajani     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Yemi Osinbajo     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Temitope Ogunbanke     Ajayi Okasanmi     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Oke-Ogun     AbdulRahman Saad     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Kwara Hotel     Fola Consultant     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Wasiu Odewale     Kayode Laro     Busari Alabi Alausa     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Ilorin General Hospital     John Olobayo     Baboko Primary School     KWASEIC     Valsolar Consortium     Ahmed \'Lateef     Alimi     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Olabode Towoju     Awoye     Just Event Online     Aremu Odolaye     Hijaab     Ilota     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Memunat Monsuma     CLAY POT