Ikare-Akoko Muslims shut out of Jummah Service over internal crisis

DAMISI OJO, Akure.

For the second  Friday Jummah service,Ikare Akoko Central Mosque a town with most populous Muslims population in Ondo state is being locked for the weekly jummah service.

Last week friday, the two gates leading to the expansive mosques were lo ked with padlocks which were later cut by a faction in a supremacy and accountability crisis rocking Ikare Akoko muslims community.

The surrounding of the mosques usually busy with shops for selling and buying were deserted while police patrol vehicles were station at the frontage of the mosque to forestall any possible skirmishes.

Efforts to speak with Police in  Ikare Akoko  were fruitless as Area Commander and the Divisional Poli r Officer (DPO) declined comments but authoritative source said  the case is already before the State Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami and the Director of DSS Akure.

As at the  press time, the Chief Imam of Ikare ,Sheik Abbas  Abubakar could not be reached.

It would be recalled that Ikare Central Mosques was put under lock and key last friday.Teeming worshippers were barred from praying at the Central Mosque.

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