{"id":42289,"date":"2015-09-24T14:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42289"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:28:37","slug":"protesters-attack-saraki-emir-at-prayer-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/protesters-attack-saraki-emir-at-prayer-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters attack Saraki,\u00a0 Emir, at prayer ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9949\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Muslim Eid al-Adha prayers in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state were this morning disrupted as the country\u2019s embattled Senate president, Bukola Saraki was pelted with stones and pure water sachets as he arrived in his car convoy.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9951\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chaos caused by the stoning of the senate president who has been charged with 13 counts of corruption and false asset declaration, caused the prayers to be disrupted with the loud speakers not calling the prayers and several thousands of faithfuls unable to say the prayers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9952\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">witnesses said the protesters were angered by the inability of the state government to pay salaries of workers before the Sallah celebrations, rendering some civil servants unable to buy rams for today\u2019s Eid-el Kabir.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9953\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources say trouble started shortly after the senate president and other dignitaries arrived, some people started throwing stones and sachet waters in the direction of the Senate President and other important people<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9954\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other dignitaries to which the angry worshippers directed their missiles included the Emir of Ilorin,\u00a0 Ibrahim Sulu Gambari; the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Muhammadu Bashir; former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1443088441488_9955\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others are\u00a0 Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Ali Ahmad; former Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly, Razak Atunwa( now a member of the House of Representatives); a member of the House of Representatives, Amuda Kannike; a former National Chairman of the PDP, Abubakar Kawu Baraje; among others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Eid al-Adha prayers in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state were this morning disrupted as the country\u2019s embattled Senate president, Bukola Saraki was pelted with stones and pure water&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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