There was pandemonium in Ikere Ekiti, the second largest city of Ekiti State on Tuesday as the protests against police brutality took a fresh dimension when arm-wielding hoodlums attacked the protesters and set the two police stations of the town ablaze.
Newsflash247 had earlier reported that suspected hoodlums set the Afao Police Station, along Ado road in Ikere Ekiti on fire in the early hours of Tuesday.
The incident occurred around 10.45 am, according to an eyewitness.
The eyewitness told Newsflash247 that the hoodlums freed the accused person in the cell before they set the police station ablaze.
It was learnt the hoodlums, who were victims of police unethical conduct had earlier blocked some major roads in town before invading the station.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that some of the police officers in the station took to their heels on sighting the irate hoodlums.
Three hours later, the hoodlums also set the Anaye Police Station, along Igbara Odo road in the same town ablaze.
The incident occurred around 3.30pm.
The hoodlums bearing cutlasses, sticks and gun attacked the protesters around 12: 45pm at Odo Oja area of the town where they mounted blockades.
It was gathered that the hoodlums went on rampage to vent their anger against the continued disruption of economic and social activities in the town by the protesters.
The atmosphere was tensed as some of the protesters repelled the hoodlums while others who could not withstand the arm-wielding hoodlums scampered for safety.
The situation grounded to halt economic activities and vehicular movement in the area as motorists, commuters and shop owners had fled the scene to escape being trapped.
Several people including the bystanders sustained varying degrees of injuries in the process.
Newsflash247 gathered that Army are already on ground to restore peace in the town and the entire state.
Details later…
