The Tyranny Of Saraki Family And The Kwarans’ Struggle For Liberation By Remi Oyeyemi “
The Tyranny Of Saraki Family And The Kwarans’ Struggle For Liberation By Remi Oyeyemi “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”- Frederick Douglass (Jan.1818 – Feb. 1895)BY REMI OYEYEMISEP 23, 2015243942The good people of Kwara State have been yoking under the tyranny of the Saraki Family for several decades. They have yoked for so long that it seems that suffering in subjugation has become their second nature. Others often joke about their supposed docility and assume that this has been responsible for their inexplicable acquiescence to brutal subjugation, enslavement and endless denigration by a single family that has held them to ransom