Protests Rock Offa over Overzealousness of Security Agents

Date: 2021-07-15

Scores of indigenes of Offa in Kwara State yesterday staged a protest against alleged overzealousness of security agents deployed in the community.

The state government had in March this year imposed curfew on Offa and Erin-Ile after an outbreak of communal clash between the two communities.

Offa community has accused the security personnel of partisanship and one-sidedness in their dealing with them.

The protesters started their peaceful rally from Itafa area to Avalo Hotel junction through the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, carrying different placards.

Some of the placards read: 'Offa is larger than the office of a security'; 'SA security cannot re-write our history'; 'Offa cannot be intimidated'; 'Offa will resist security rascality', and 'Kwara State Government is biased against Offa'.

Speaking with journalists, the Iyaloja-General of Offa, Idiat Yusuf, said: "This peaceful protest is not between Offa and Erin-Ile. It is between the community members and the security personnel deployed to maintain peace between the two communities.

"The security personnel have abandoned where the government asked them to stay and maintain peace. They are supposed to stay between Offa and Erin-Ile boundary. They have started harassing and intimidating residents of Offa communities.

"They have disrupted our commercial activities. The security men were drafted to Offa and Erin-Ile in the aftermath of another communal clash that erupted between the two neighbouring communities in March this year.

"The overzealousness of the security personnel is only being borne by Offa indigenes because the Special Adviser to the governor is from Erin-Ile. It is a known fact that Offa and Erin-Ile over the years have been in a running battle over land issue.

"It, therefore, means that the state government ought to have appointed a neutral person to be his special adviser of security matters. The security personnel have become one-sided and partisan to the detriment of Offa people.

"We are not saying that the government is backing them, but what the security agents are doing is unfair and harmful to our economy. The people can no longer go about their normal business in the Federal Polytechnic area."

Another speaker, Yusuf Babatunde AbdulAzeez, said: "The protest has nothing to do with engaging anybody in any war. It is to express our experience in the hands of security agents deployed to arrest the ugly situation that happened March 3 this year, "which is uncalled for.'

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilesha-Gwanara     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Isiaka Danmeromu     PharmAccess Foundation     Ilorin East     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     SAPZ Project     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     KW-GIS     Ubandoma     Kwara State Football Association     Doyin Awoyale     Olayinka Olaogun     Ajuloopin     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Quareeb     Adesoye College     Abubakar Atiku     Harafat E. Mukadam     Salihu Ajia     Third Estate     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Al-Adaby     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Manzuma     Na\'Allah     Shettima Of Ilorin     Oloye     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Taofeek Ibraheem     Kwara Consultative Forum     Goodluck Jonathan     Kazeem Adekanye     Sabi     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Oba Abdulrahim     HYPPADEC     Kolawole Bashirat     Sheikh Ariyibi     SSUCOEN     Muhammed Aliyu     Kulende-UITH     ENetSuD     Obayomi Azeez     Pacify Labs     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Osuwa     Amule     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Ohoro Of Shao     Sabi     Oniwasi Agbaye     Curfew     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Musibau Akanji     Abubakar Aliagan     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Olaiya Zuberu     Ilorin Central Mosque     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     NURTW     Harmony Holdings     International Vocational Centre     Sobi Hill     New Nigeria People’s Party     Sarah Jubril     Ita-Ore     Michael Ologundea     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     AGILE Programme     Ethical College     Ibrahim Bio     Olatomiwa Williams    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mutawali Of Ilorin     Minister     Anilelerin     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Usman Rifun     Tafida Of Kaiama     Lanre Badmus     NITDA     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Council Of The Wise     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Kwara North     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Obayomi Azeez     Jelili Yusuf     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Azeez Bello     Raimi Iyanda     Surajudeen Akanbi     Salary     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Oko-Olowo     Abdulazeez Arowona     College Of Education     Sulyman Tejidini     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     David Adesina     Suleiman Mora Omar     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Taofeek Sanusi     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Women Radio     Yusuf Abubakar     Muhammed Aliyu     Kumbi Titilope     Farouk Salim     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Oloje     Afetu Of Alabe     Laolu Saraki     Kazeem Gbolagade     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Amusement Park     Kale Ayo     John Dara     Umar Gunu     Tsaragi-Share     Florence Saraki     Jumoke F. Ajao     Aminat Omodara     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Nupe     Bond     Sunset Workers     Alanamu     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Toyin Abdullahi     Agbarigidoma     Communication Network Support Services     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Salaudeen Oyewale     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Alapansapa     Tsado Manman     Akume     Abdulkarim Adisa     Madawaki Of Ilorin