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The security operatives have also temporarily withdrawn from the checkpoints.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

Maryam A. Garuba     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Ghali Muhammed     Bolakale Ayo     Kwara South     College Of Health     Ekiti     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Yeketi     Adeleke Ogungbe     Oba Of Jebba     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     UNILORIN Alumni     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Elections     Unilorin     Busari Alabi Alausa     Opobiyi     Monsurat Omotosho     Waheed Ibrahim     Inside Kwara     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     IDPU     Taiwo Joseph     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Hakeem Idris     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     GAMA     Okeose Christian Cementary     Ilesha-Baruba     Ohoro Of Shao     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Sulyman Buhari     Modibbo Kawu     Bayo Lawal     Kaosarah Adeyi     Kwara Poly     Galadiman Ngeri     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Kazeem Oladepo     Rashidi Yekini     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Balogin Alanamu     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Oluronke Adeyemi     IHS     Post-utme     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Ilorin.Info     Modupe Oluwole     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Halimat Yusuf     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Agboola Abdulraheem     Awodun     Michael Nzekwe     Mustapha Olanipekun     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Timothy Akangbe     Pakata     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Abiodun Abdulkareem     ER-KANG     Hajj     Yakubu Dogara     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Saka Adeyemo     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Buhari     Magaji Nda     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Razak Atunwa     Yemi Osinbajo     Facemasks     Mustapha Akanbi     Wahab Femi Agbaje    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Folorunsho Alao     Rotimi Atere     Sadiq Buhari     Erin-ile     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Olatunji Moronfoye     Baakini     Alfa Yahaya Road     Clara Nwachukwu     United Nigeria Airline     Nurudeen Muhammed     Jamiu Oyawoye     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Kwara North     Oba Abdulraheem     Sunday Popo-Ola     Benin Republic     Tunji Oyawoye     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Hijaab     Al-Adaby     Lanre Badmus     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Ahman Pategi University     Sheriff Shagaya     Kehinde Baale     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Olabode Towoju     Owu Fall     Donatus Ejidike     David Oyedepo     Owo Arugbo     Moronfoye     Kolawole Bashirat     Saheed Akinwumi     SDP     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Issa Baba     Salman Jawondo     Naira Redesign     Azeez Bello     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Allocation     Abubakar Atiku     Sola Saraki University     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Kola Adesina     March 28     Dairo Kunle Paul     Yetunde Balogun     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Ladi Hassan     Reuben Paraje     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Yusuf Ali     N-Power     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Modupe Oluwole     Labour Party     Abdulwaheed Musa     S.O. Opowoye     Abdulazeez Uthman     Amule     Nigerian Army     Halidu Danbaba     Bibire Ajape     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Kwabes     Arik     Siraj Oyewale     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Oke-Odo     NAWOJ