Thousands of Christians protest in Ilorin.

Thousands of Christians protest in Ilorin

october 15, 2014,
Vanguard News
BY DEMOLA AKINYEMI

ILORIN-Thousands of Christians, members of
various church denominations stormed the
streets of Ilorin early hours of Wednesday
morning to protest the taking over of their
schools by kwara state government demanding
that they want their schools back.
All schools in kwara state among others
resumed Wednesday after a prolonged holiday
occasioned by the outbreak of Ebola Virus
Disease.
But,the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Communications,Dr Muideen
Akorede in a swift denied that government had
such plan to take over the Christians schools
Vanguard check revealed that the schools
were being grant aided by the state
government since the year 2006, a
development that conferred the ownership
status on the government which the Christian
communities rose up to reject.
Members had as early as 7am gathered at St
James Schools,Primary, Junior and Senior
Secondary schools owned by Christ Apostolic
Church CAC on the ever busy Yidi
road,singing Christian songs and praying
fervently for the state government to hand over
the schools back to them.
Peacefully filing across the streets in their
demonstration mood, the protesters displayed
placards such as’’ We want our Schools
back’’, ’’We are taking back our schools
because they belong to us’’, Government
should stop grant aiding our schools, we can
run them on our own’’, ’’Enough of oppression
and injustice, we are taking back our schools,
they belong to us’’, ’’Mission Schools belong
to us,n we want government to stop grant
aiding it’’. among others