Thousands of Christians protest in 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
Journalist 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