Senate President Mobbed by Angry Kwarans

Is this some other level of witch-hunt? As angry worshippers at the Eid Prayer ground in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital in protest against the state of the economy of Kwara.

According to reports, Saraki and others arrived the praying ground, there was intermittent shout of “Ole! Ole!! Ole!!!(Thief, thief, thief).

Others were shouting “Ebi n pa wa!” “Ebi yii tito Saraki!””A o ki run, e fun wa lounje”( We are hungry, enough of hunger Saraki, give us food, teach us how to fish.”

Other victims caught in the sachet water and stone-rain were ex- Minister Bolaji Abdullahi, the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Ali Ahmad, ex-Speaker Razak Atunwa (now a member of the House of Representatives) Rep Amuda Kannike, a former National Chairman of the PDP, Alh. Kawu Baraje, the Taliban of Ilorin, Prof. Oba Abdulraheem, members of the State House of Assembly, all the Baloguns, Magajis and prominent leaders in Ilorin Emirate.

The protesters were said to be angry over the non-utilization of the bailout funds given to the state by the Federal Government to offset workers’ salaries.

The battle has shifted base to Twitter-land,

some tweets here: