believed to be the hideout for people dealing in sales of human parts
in some blocks of uncompleted building along Airport/ Eyenkorin Road
near NASFAT village, a suburb of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital,
yesterday, 30
th June, 2014. This yet another horrific situation is coming on the
heel of a public alarm raised recently by the Ilorin Emirate
Descendants Progressives Union (IEDPU) on the alarming rate of
kidnapping, ritual killings and cultism in the state.
This yet another horrific situation calls for sober reflection from
all and sundry as this has further opened the wounds of the people who
are battling maladministration in the midst of plenty under the ruling
APC. While PDP, as a party, is sad about this horrendous event which
has consumed people whose number could not be immediately ascertained,
we will not however be intimidated from putting blame where it rightly
belongs. From all intents and purposes, the discovery of the House of
Horror by the police in a suburb of Ilorin, on the tip-off of vigilant
residents, is an indication of a government that has gone asleep while
the state burns under unprecedented insecurity.
Before the APC accuses us of politicization, which is their regular
mantra when serious socio-economic and security concerns are genuinely
raised by our party, they should be reminded that the primary function
of the government of the state is the security of the lives and
properties of the helpless populace. Unfortunately, there has been a
clear abdication of this responsibility, leading to the killings of
several innocent lives and destruction of property. Even when our
Party raised an alarm recently about the killing of a defected member
of the PDP, Master Tajudeen Eba, by thugs suspected to be APC agents,
all what we got in return was a deliberate cover-up and factual
misrepresentation by a political party that has now made lies and
half-truth the centre-piece of its manifestoes. Till today, nothing
has been heard either about the gruesome murder of Mr. Tajudeen or the
alleged mastermind of the fracas, a certain 'Gbajamo', a wanted
notorious thug that the government was reported to be on the list of
those being sponsored by the Kwara State Government for this year's
Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
From the inception of the present APC government, Kwara has been
moving from frying pan to fire in terms of insecurity. From
unprecedented rate in incidences of cultism, to ritual killing and
kidnapping, the state has never had it so bad. Kwara has, quite
unfortunately, gained a notoriety of being the 'Headquarters of
Kidnappers and Ritual Killers in the North-Central Geopolitical zone',
as derisively published by a soft sell magazine recently.
We now begin to wonder what in actual fact the Kwara State Governor,
Mr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has been using his over N200million Security
Votes on over the past years. What are his arrays of appointed
security advisers doing, despite huge amount of public funds funneled
into those offices in the name of security?
It is obvious from the items found and emerging testimonies that the
den had been in existence for long and the residents even told us that
they usually see jeeps and exotic cars with official government cars
within the area. It is an indictment on Kwara government's moral
character that for years this illicit practice of callous killings of
fellow beings for envisaged selfish gains, keeps soaring right under
the nose of the Kwara State Government.
In conclusion, we commend the vigilant residents around the scene of
the crime for proving timely intelligence to the police, who in turn
rose up to their responsibility with the speed of the light. We ask
them to keep up with this patriotic duty, especially in the light of
the inexplicable non-challance of their government to their security.
We urge the Federal Government, Nigerian Police Force, Human Rights
Commission and civil societies to investigate this matter and get to
the root of it, lest those who have been killed in this den will die
in vain.
Chief Rex K. Olawoye
Publicity Secretary
NB: Pictures show the house of horror as busted by the Kwara Command
of the Nigerian Police
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Faith Olaniran
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