Kwara doctors on streets to protest insecurity





The Nigerian Medical Association, Kwara State chapter on Tuesday in Ilorin protested peacefully over armed attacks, and general insecurity in Nigeria.
The protest was also over  the killing of the state's immediate past Vice Chairman of the Medical Dental Association of Nigeria, Dr. Ariyo Adewunmi,
The doctors numbering no fewer than 130 from public and private institutions matched from their Secretariat at Government Reservation Area, Ilori through the Government House Road, to the Police Headquarters, Kwara State Command, to Challenge Junction and back to the Government House Road.
They ended the protest at the Ministry of Health where they were received by the Commissioner  for Health, Alhaji Kayode Issah, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Labour Matters, Mr. Bisi Fakayode.
The  chapter Chairman, Prof. Mikhail Buhari, said the lives and properties of health workers in the state were threatened.
He called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, and the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed ,to improve security in the nation and Kwara State respectively.
Issah said the state government was saddened over the death of Adewunmi.
Noting that the state is one of the safest states in the country, he, however said the state government had invigorated mechanisms to improve on the security of lives and properties in the state.



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