Banditry: PDP, AbdulRazaq trade blame as hoodlums flog female protesters in Kwara

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The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led government of a “collapse of leadership” following the attack on women protesters at the Kwara State Government House, Ilorin.

The PDP, in a statement on Monday, condemned what it described as the brutal assault on women and children who had staged a peaceful protest over worsening insecurity in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.

The protesters, mostly women from Oke Ode, Agbeku, Babanla, Adanla and neighbouring communities, had converged on the Government House to demand urgent government intervention in the release of their relatives allegedly kidnapped by bandits.

Videos of the protest, which circulated widely on social media and was obtained by The PUNCH, showed women lamenting in Yoruba that their husbands and family members had been held hostage for weeks, with ransom demands reportedly running into tens of millions of naira. Punch