The Imam of Ikun-Ekiti Central
Mosque in Moba Local Government Area of
Ekiti State, is currently at the Ekiti State
University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti,
receiving treatments after he was attacked by
masquerades Tuesday night.
Muslim unwavering had assembled in the mosque to
soften their Ramadan quick up planning for the
evening petition by 7p.m., when the
disguises struck.
The masquerades assaulted the admirers
with clubs, stone and iron, delivering wounds
on them.
Around five of the admirers were said to
have maintained changing degrees of damage.
The punks likewise vandalized two autos stopped
at the mosque's premises.
The Imam, Alhaji Abdul-Rasak Abubakar-Bello,
who was hurried to the Teaching Hospital,
Ado-Ekiti, got lines on his head.
Talking from his healing facility bed, he told
Vanguard that the Muslims were held prisoner
in the mosque for four hours by the
disguises, who debilitated to murder them.
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He stated: "There was no chance we could get away
since they were sitting tight for us outside after
at first assaulting us inside the mosque with
press bars and woods. When we prevailing in
locking ourselves inside the mosque, they
begun tossing stones at us."
Bello blamed the Divisional Police Office for
disregarding the save calls made to him by the
Muslim people group.
In the interim, the Muslim people group charged a
conventional leader of engineering the assault
on them.
However, at press time, the said ruler not one or the other
picked calls nor reacted to an instant message
sent to him on the assault.
Denouncing the assault, the National Council
of Muslim Youth Organizations, NACOMYO,
blamed the lord and the police for complicity
in the assault on the Muslims.
In an announcement by the state Coordinator,
Tajudeen Ahmed, and the Secretary, Musa
Tijani, NACOMYO expressed that the ruler had
prior cautioned the Muslims to keep their
ladies far from the mosque on Tuesday,
being the great finale of their disguise
celebration.
"He was said to have composed a letter to the
Muslim people group of Ikun-Ekiti to guarantee that
their ladies are kept inside.
"The Muslim people group of Ikun-Ekiti guaranteed
add up to consistence by keeping all their female
individuals inside."
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