Violent attempt by a joint team of soldiers, Department of
State Services, DSS and policemen to arrest popular Yoruba activist, Sunday
Igboho on Friday afternoon was foiled.
Igboho was said to be on his way to see Afenifere chieftain,
Pa Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos when the joint team, numbering about 40 ambushed him
and wanted to arrest him on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
According to a video obtained by NigerianEye, Igboho, who is
topless, is seen with his men daring the security operatives to “do their
worst” before they drive off.
His supporters reportedly resisted his arrest as commotion
ensued between his supporters and the joint team which sought to arrest him by
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Indications emerged from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Friday that security operatives attempted to arrest a self-styled warlord, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered from sources close to Mr Igboho that the acclaimed activist was accosted by security operatives attached to Operation Burst while on his way to Lagos.
Mr Igboho did not respond to our correspondent’s calls and text messages seeking full details of what happened.
The state’s police spokesperson, Olugbenga Fadeyi, did also not respond to calls and text messages either.
But Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation and ally of Mr Igboho, confirmed the incident.
Media mogul and businessman, Chief Dele Momodu, has lambasted the Nigerian government for abandoning the critical issues of banditry, and kidnapping and instead, terrorising Yoruba agitator and activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho.
Momodu, in his reaction to the incident on Twitter, said the government knew the whereabouts of bandits in the forests but failed to go after them, but wanted to terrorise a “man who lives in his own beautiful home.”
He said, “Why this harassment of CHIEF SUNDAY IGBOHO by agents of a government that knows the whereabouts of bandits who live inside remote forests and won’t go near them but have the temerity and shamelessness to terrorise a man who lives in his own beautiful home in Ibadan city!!!”
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The Department of State Services has claimed that its operatives did not make an attempt to arrest Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Friday.
The denial is coming a few hours after reports that a joint team of policemen and the Department of State Services attempted to arrest Sunday Igboho along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
DSS made the denial in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, National Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Peter Afunanya, titled, ‘DSS did not attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho’.
In a viral video, Igboho, who was not putting on any top, had dared security operatives to “do their worst” before they drove off.
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