Men identified as political thugs stormed the Kwara State Government House on Tuesday to disperse a group of women peacefully protesting the abduction of their family members by assaulting them.
The women were demonstrating the rampant attack by bandits in Ifelodun Local Council of the state.
The protesters carrying placards, descended on the seat of power on Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin, to plead governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to do more to save the Oke-Ode community from bandits.
However, amid their protest, more than 30 men, armed with horse whips, canes, rubber, wire and other weapons, suddenly alighted from an unmarked vehicle and began beating the women.
This sent the protesters running in different direction, with some falling into the gutters.
The thugs were also filmed forcefully collecting their placards as they assaulted them.
Kwara indigenes have gone on different platforms to condemn the thug attack. Some accused the state government of working with thugs.
