{"id":9309,"date":"2018-05-28T21:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2018-05-28T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:44:05","slug":"kwara-elders-back-buhari-igp-on-transfer-of-cultists-suspects-to-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9309","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Elders Back Buhari, IGP On Transfer Of Alleged Cultists To Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Adedeji Joseph,<\/strong> Ilorin.
\nPresident Mohammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris have been asked to pursue the case of the arrested cultists in Kwara State and their alleged confessions to a logical conclusion.
\nElders in the State in the name of Kwara Liberation Group (KIG), who made the call at a press conference in Ilorin, asked the President and the IGP to discountenance calls from the state demanding that the suspected cultists transferred to Abuja be returned to Kwara.
\nSpecifically, the elders under the chairmanship of Dr. Amuda Aluko, the Tafidan Ilorin (Ilorin High Chief) said both the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, who were making the calls should be ignored.
\nAt the briefing, Dr. Aluko said killings had been taking place in Kwara State since 2003 and the citizens were made to believe that the perpetrators of the criminality were from outside the state.
\nHe said much as such criminal cases were reported through petitions, letters, placing newspaper advertisements and \u00a0several other efforts since it started in 2003, security agencies had always swept the matters under the carpet.
\nHis words; \u00a0\u201cIt is important to stress the fact that what we are witnessing today<\/a> is a build-up of several life consuming and property destruction activities in Kwara State since the year 2003
\n\u201cHowever, without prejudice to the activities of security personnel in the state and Nigeria at large, several open letters, newspaper advertisements and books have been written by the progressives to sensitize the governments at all levels and the probable solutions\u201d.
\nAluko lamented that all along however, \u201cgodfathers to these criminals have always subverted the efforts to rid Kwara State of criminals. As a proof to our claims, several cases were reported, some followed up to the law courts but the end result had always been disappointing\u201d.
\nThe KLG declared that the police in the case of the arrested cultists and their transfer to the Force Headquarters, Abuja had \u201cnot transgressed their limits\u201d pointing out that similar transfers in the past had been done at the instance of both Saraki and Governor Ahmed.
\nThey said the cases in reference the Oro Ago Fulani\/Farmers clash, Share\/Tsaragi crises, Alapa crises and the recent robbery attack on Offa to mention but a few.
\n\u201cOn our part, the KLG fervently advise the distinguished President of the Senate to stop running helter-skelter and allow the IGP ad the police authority to perform their constitutional duty. Surely with the cooperation of all Nigerians, the truth will triumph\u201d
\nAmong those who attended the press briefing were the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in the state led by its chairman, Comrade Abdulmmuni Onagun, chairman of the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Iyiola Oyedepo.
\nOthers were Alhaji Isa Malate, a one-time Commissioner in the State, youth organizations and those who claimed they were victims arrested, transferred to Abuja and detained for months while between 2003 and 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Adedeji Joseph, Ilorin. President Mohammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris have been asked to pursue the case of the arrested cultists in Kwara State and their alleged confessions to a logical conclusion. Elders in the State in the name of Kwara Liberation Group (KIG), who made the call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}