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The security operatives have also temporarily withdrawn from the checkpoints.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

Mustapha Olanipekun     Offa     Kola Bukoye     Temitope Ogunbanke     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Funmilayo Zubair     Ridwan Agboola     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Olatunji Moronfoye     Sheikh Alimi     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Bureau Of Lands     Col. Adedipe     Igbaja     Bashir Adigun     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Maigida     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Alikinla     Idi-Ape     Kale Bayero     Gwanara     Dan Masanin     Ajakaye     Umar Danladi Shero     Waheed Ibrahim     Usman Yunusa     Iponrin     Rihanat Ajia     Atiku Abubakar     Nigerian Army     Hijab     Baakini     Olaosebikan     Sa\'adu Salau     Iyiola Oyedepo     Sango-UITH Road     Ilorin Central Mosque     Yahaya Muhammad     Osi     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Nupe     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Saka Keji     Quranic Recitation Competition     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Lotus Bank     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Sunday Fagbemi     Turaki Of Ilorin     Labaeka     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Mike Omotosho     Abdulfatai Baakini     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Dan-Kazeem     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     ARMTI     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Marafan Shonga     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Ganiyu Abolarin     Deji Ajani     Balikis Jawondo     Isiaka Gold     Sulu Gambari     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Oye Tinuoye     Tafida Of Kaiama     Oyun     Inside Kwara     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Ibrahim Bio     Jimoh Bashir     Agor Market     Teachers Specific Allowance    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oyawoye     Niyi Osundare     Toyin Sanusi     Mahe Abdulkadir     Makama Of Ilorin     Bamikole Omishore     Kabir Shagaya     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Ballah     Apaola     Harafat E. Mukadam     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Cornelius Adebayo     Ojo Fadumila     Idris Amosa Saidu     KW-GIS     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Kolade Solagberu     Vasolar     PPS     Roheemat Hammed     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Congress For National Consensus     Olawuyi     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Mohammed Abdulahi     Binta Sulyman     Omotosho     Coronavirus     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Saad Omo Iya     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Okin High School     Yusuf Lawal     Gamji Members Association     Kumbi Titiloye     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Bello John Olanrewaju     Abdulfatai Baakini     Tafidan Kaiama     07039448763     Bluenile Associates     Aminu Ado Bayero     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Abdullahi Biffo     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Lateef Alagbonsi     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Agboola Abdulraheem     Post Utme     Zara Umar     Sunset Workers     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Aliyu Muyideen     Sunday Popo-Ola     Atunwa     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Noah Yusuf     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Shagari     Akanji     CACOVID     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Tunji Arosanyin     Oke-Ode     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Oko Erin     Adebayo Salami     MMWG     Yetunde Balogun     JUSUN     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Igosun