Following incessant killings of youth in the Ibadan area of Oyo State allegedly by the operatives of the State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, hundreds of aggrieved youth took to the streets of the state capital on Wednesday, protesting the killings.
According to reports, the youths were protesting the killing of a 14-year-old boy, Peter Okafor, in the early hours of Wednesday around Uncle Joe area of Mokola in Ibadan, allegedly by Amotekun officials.
It was gathered that the victim, an apprentice with a printing press in Mokola, was shot dead.
Recall that similar incident was recorded in Oke-Ado area of Ibadan on July 21, where two youth were allegedly killed by Amotekun corps, while celebrating the Eid-el Kabir festival.
A witness, who requested not to be named, said that immediately the boy sighted the Amotekun operatives in the early hours of Wednesday, patrolling the area, he started running to escape.
“I don’t know what he did to them to warrant his running, but they shot him in the head and he died instantly,” the witness said.
Immediately the information got to the youth in the area, they mobilised themselves and started making bonfires on the road, thus causing traffic gridlock around Mokola area.
The protesters later moved to the state Secretariat with the corpse of the victim, and prevented both human and vehicular movements around the main gate.
Though Sunday Odukoya, the Executive Assistant on Security to the Governor, made frantic efforts to appease the protesters, they insisted that they must see Governor Seyi Makinde.
