Fear, anger in Kwara as residents protest rising insecurity

Residents of Kwara South connected Friday took to the streets successful choler and fearfulness implicit rising insecurity, staging a protestation to request urgent authorities involution amid a worsening question of killings, kidnappings and displacement crossed communities.

The protesters, nether the aegis of the Kwara South Development Forum, decried what they described arsenic a deepening information crisis, alleging that equipped groups person continued to transportation retired coordinated attacks, overwhelming section communities and weakening existing information structures, peculiarly vigilante groups.

Speaking during the protest, the forum’s convener, Obashola Ayomide Ridwan, said residents were compelled to enactment to gully attraction to the deteriorating situation.

“Our mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers person been killed and kidnapped, portion our schools person been unopen down successful Kwara South,” helium said.

He called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to urgently intervene by strengthening section vigilante groups and information agencies.

Other protesters narrated experi...