Kwara Youths Protest Over Kidnappings, Block Highway

Hundreds of youths successful Isanlu-Isin, Oke-Onigbin and Edidi communities successful Kwara South yesterday blocked Ilorin-Omu-Aran-Kabba road to protestation the incessant kidnappings successful their communities.

The youths carrying placards with antithetic inscriptions blocked the road with bonfires arsenic aboriginal arsenic 8:00 a.m, demanding government’s involution connected insecurity successful the communities.

Some of the inscriptions connected the placards reads: ‘Enough is Enough, ‘Stop Kidnapping our People, ‘We request authorities Urgent Intervention, ‘Our radical are dying successful the hands of kidnappers’, ‘We are bushed of paying ransom without results’.

The protestation resulted successful a gridlock connected some sides of the highway  for hours.
Spokesman of the protesters and Odee of lsanlu isin, Chief Michael Ayanda, said the incessant kidnappings had prevented them from going to their farms and embarking connected different trading and commercialized activities.

According to him, thereby spreading anxiousness and hunger among the assemblage members.
The protesters besides decried the non-responsive cognition of information agencies and the authorities to their plight successful spite of respective appeals done letters and visitations to constabulary formations and the authorities successful Ilorin, the authorities capital.

Ayanda, who spoke to NAN astatine Eleyin Village, said the protestation was to telephone the attraction of the information agencies and the authorization to their plight.

He alleged that successful spite of outgo of ransoms moving into millions of Naira galore of the kidnapped victims were yet to regain their freedom.

Ayanda besides claimed that the whereabouts of nary less than 7 members of the communities’ vigilant members, who volunteered to comb the wood to effect the merchandise of their people, were inactive unknown.

“We person paid N30 cardinal for 2 radical earlier kidnapped, but they are yet to merchandise them, they are asking for different money.

“Today we person paid different N10 cardinal for the merchandise of 7 kidnapped assemblage members, but they lone merchandise 1 person.

“The intent of this protestation is to fto the acrophobic authorities and the full satellite beryllium alert of our plight, particularly our government, to assistance america to escaped our radical and warrant information of unrecorded and property,” helium said.

The president of Irepodun section authorities area, Mr Azeez Yakubu, who addressed the protesters astatine Eleyin Village adjacent Omu-Aran appealed to the younker for calm and promised to walk their grievances to the authorities.

Also speaking, Mallam Ismaila Ahmed, the Serikin Fulani of Eleyin Village successful Isin Local Government Area, said 7 of their assemblage members were inactive with the kidnappers aft postulation of ransoms.

“Our radical person go targets of the kidnappers successful the caller times.  No less than eleven of our radical are yet to regain their state and we person paid N20 cardinal to date,” helium said.

Efforts to question the absorption of the Kwara Commissioner of Police, Mr Adekimi Ojo proved futile arsenic helium did not prime calls.

However, the main property caput to the governor, Mr Rafiu Ajakaiye, pleaded with the youths to workout patience arsenic the authorities authorities was making efforts to curb the occupation of insecurity successful each parts of the state.