The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday night, confirmed the Sunday Igboho’s House raid, that allegedly saw at least two people dead and many injured.
The DSS which confirmed Igboho’s house raid on Thursday 1st July 2021, at the Soka area of Ibadan, also displayed a cache of arms allegedly belonging to the suspected agitators and recovered from the raid.
Aside from displaying the arms recovered from Sunday Igboho’s house raid, the DSS also paraded 12 suspected Yoruba nation agitators that included 11 males and one female. Both the arms and suspects were paraded after an alleged fierce gun battle with Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo alias Igboho on Thursday in Ibadan.
The Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya confirmed the arrests and items recovered from the residence of Sunday Igboho.
Things recovered were listed as:
i. Seven (7) AK-47 assault rifles;
ii. Three (3) Pump Action guns;
iii. Thirty (30) fully charged AK-47 magazines;
iv. Five Thousand (5,000) rounds of 7.62mm ammunition;
v. Five (5) Cutlasses, One (1) Jackknife, One (1) Pen Knife
vi. Two (2) Pistol holsters;
vii. One (1) binoculars
viii. A wallet containing Five (5) US Dollars in one (1) Dollar denomination; local and international driver’s licenses in his name, ATM Cards, a German residence permit No. YO2N6K1NY bearing his name;
ix. Two (2) whistles;
x. Fifty (5) Cartridges;
xi. Eighteen (18) Walkie-Talkies;
xii. Three Voodoo charm jackets/traditional body armour;
xiii. Two (2) Laptops (One (1) Toshiba and One (1) Compaq); and
xiv. His International Passport and those of many others (as displayed here). Further exploitation and forensic analysis are ongoing.
Igboho, an Oyo indigene, has been in the news in recent times after he issued a one-week quit notice to Fulani herdsmen residing in Ibarapa area of Oyo State in January over the spate of kidnappings and killings attributed to herdsmen in the area.
Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, said the Yoruba Nation Agitator was not arrested during the raid.
“He (Sunday Igboho) is currently safe,” the aide said.
He further said, “The situation now is very bad.
“Two Yoruba sons have been killed in the house of Chief Sunday Igboho. The two dead bodies have been taken away by the military. We do not know of the location where they were taken to”