Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has described those who disrupted Thursday’s Eid-el-Kabir prayers in an Eid praying ground in Ilorin, by allegedly booing and stoning Senate President Bukola Saraki and other dignitaries including himself, as sinners and the act an offence against God.
He said this on Saturday in Ilorin when he paid a Sallah courtesy visit on the Kwara state Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed.
The agitators, who were alleged to be local government workers in the state, were said to be protesting the non-payment of their September salaries which prevented them from being able to celebrate the Sallah with their families.
In his reaction, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed said that the state had paid its workers and provided an avenue for the LGs to secure loans to pay their staff despite that the state’s federal allocation was yet to be remitted to it.
However, the Kwara state Police Command said it has arrested at least 8 of the protesters who disrupted the Sallah prayers and will soon charge them to court.
On the other hand, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki in a statement through his spokesman Yusuph Olaniyonu denied that he was booed or pelted with stones at the Eid prayer ground.