Businessman petitions NASS over killing of 25 Ibadan traders

AN Ibadan businessman, Mr Adisa Onifade
has petitioned the National Assembly to
launch a probe into the killings of 25
Ibadan traders earlier this month
allegedly by members of the Boko Haram
sect.
Mr Onifade in the petition said he lost his
cousin in the gruesome incident.
According to him, he is calling on the
National Assembly to launch a
comprehensive investigation into the
killing of the traders from Ibadan because
of the circumstances in which they were
killed. One of the traders, who according
to reports did not immediately die from
gunshots fired at him was later
slaughtered.
"That could have been my cousin,
Oladepo, who traveled with other traders
but has not returned till date,"Mr Onifade
said.
News reports indicated that traders from
Ibadan, numbering about 25 traveled up
north to Borno State where they had
usually gone to buy agricultural produce
which they then sold in markets in
Ibadan.
One of the survivors of the attack,
Taoheed Adewuyi recounted his ordeal,
and attributed his survival to the grace of
God:
"They stopped us along the way and
asked us to come down from the car and
lie down. Afterward, they started
shooting us one after the other. I was
the third person. I was also shot but the
bullet did not hit me well. It was after an
hour that I realized I was still alive," he
said.
Adewuyi added that one of them was
slaughtered by a member of the gang that
shot them, seeing that he was still
breathing after being shot. Adewuyi was
convinced the gang members were part of
the Boko Haram sect.
Lamenting the loss of his cousin, Onifade
queried: "How can one human being
slaughter another like a goat?"
He urged the National Assembly as
representatives of the people, the Police
and other law_enforcement agencies to
get to the root of the matter and solve
the problems of insecurity in the country
before things get totally out of hand.