Agbarere/Idi-Ape Clash
- Reporter
- Jul 27, 2015
- 2 min read
Mob descend on Yinka Aree, suspected hoodlums Godfather
...beaten, stripped naked
Aggrieved mob at the weekend descended on a suspected godfather to hoodlums at Idi-Ape Area of Ilorin, Alhaji Yinka Are, who allegedly played major role in the recent fracas at Agbarere community and Idi-Ape which left several houses burnt and properties destroyed.
About 200 suspects are facing trial over the fracas, while the alleged masterminds, Ariyo is still on the run.
National Pilot learnt Are had fled away for some months following man-hunt launched by the Kwara Police Command over the perpetrators of the fracas, but his dramatic return last Friday earned him heavy bashing.
He was beaten and stripped naked, our reporter gathered.
Sources said victims of the fracas who had been on the look-out for the suspected hoodlum got the hint that Are had arrived the state capital, a development which made them stormed his family compound where he was mobbed and beaten blue-black.
Thanks to policemen’s timely intervention, the suspected hoodlums’ godfather would have been beaten to death, witness account, said.
“He is the godfather of thugs in his Idi-Ape area. He was involved in the recent fracas at Agbarere and he played a frontier role. He was among few people who escaped being arrested by the police. He had run away since the incident had happened, but nobody knows what gave him the gut to have returned home. When he got home on Friday, some people hinted people at Agbarere who are still nursing the pains inflicted on them during the fracas and they stormed his compound and beaten him blue-black. If not for the intervention of the police men, he would have been killed,” a witness, who witnessed the scenario, told National Pilot on Sunday.
Are, according to those in the know had wielded much influence during the regime of late Governor Mohammed Lawal, who also hailed from Idi-Ape area.
However, when National Pilot contacted Kwara Police Spokesman, ASP Ajayi Okasanmi, he said he was not aware of the development.
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