ANGRY YOUTH RAZE SENATOR LAFIAGI’S HOUSE OVER “POOR REPRESENTATION”
~As Soldiers kill Four youths during the protest.
THE INFORMANT247
18-11-2017.
Thousands of angry youth in Lafiagi yesterday Friday stormed the house of Senator Sha’aba Lafiagi, and set the building ablaze, accusing the lawmaker of failing to fulfil his electoral promises.
The youth staged a peaceful protest preventing him from entering Lafiagi. A situation which angered the lawmaker who ordered soldier from the nearby barrack to disperse the protesting youth.
The shots fired by the military men, invited by the lawmakers, the reports said, saw at least three persons hit by stray bullets during the protest.
One of the victims
According to a report obtained by THE INFORMANT247, It reads; “Shaba (Senator sha’ba lafiagi) was sent back few hours ago by lafiagi youths so he sent back an army to the town and they killed two peoples one from emi ndacheko and the other one from emi manyissa then the youth go to shaba house and burn it d (sic.) house presently on fire”
The youth said they were angry because the lawmaker failed to represent the interest of their senatorial district as promised before their elections in 2015.
Victims of the incident
One leader of the rampaging youth, who addressed himself only as Ibrahim, said before the elections, the lawmaker made a lot of promised but never fulfilled any, over two years after assumption of office.
They said two year after the polls, residents of the area still trek kilometres to get water while hundreds of youth still roam about without jobs.
However, all efforts to contact the senator representing Kwara North prooves abortive as his numbers were not reachable till the time of filling this report.