Department of State Services (DSS) has declared Sunday Igboho wanted.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Department of State Services (DSS) has declared leader of Yoruba Nation Secession Group, Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, a.k.a. Sunday Igboho wanted.
A statement signed by its Spokesman, Peter Afunanya, on Thursday, 1 July 2021, has advised Adeyemo/Igboho to turn himself in to the nearest security agency.
This followed the raiding of a joint team of security operatives to Igboho’s residences in the earlier hours of Thursday based on intelligence that he had stockpiled arms in the place.
According to the DSS, “on approach to the residence, the team came under heavy gun attack by nine (9) men, suspected to be IGBOHO’s guards. Six (6) of them were armed with AK-47 gun and Three (3) others, with Pump-Action rifles.”
The DSS confirmed that during the exchange, two of Igboho’s armed men were gunned down while the rest were subdued and arrested.
According to the statement, only one of the operatives was shot by the assailants on his right hand sustained an injury. He has, however, received medical attention and is very stable.
The statement read further, “the team procedurally searched the house and subsequently recovered the following among others: Seven AK-47 assault rifles; Three Pump Action guns; Thirty fully charged AK-47 magazines; Five Thousand rounds of 7.62mm ammunition; Five Cutlasses, One Jackknife, One Pen Knife; Two Pistol holsters; One binoculars; a wallet containing Five US Dollars in one Dollar denomination; local and international driver’s licences in his name, ATM Cards, and a German residence permit No. YO2N6K1NY is bearing his name.”
Other items recovered include Two whistles; Fifty Cartridges; Eighteen Walkie-Talkies; Three Voodoo charm jackets/traditional body armour, Two Laptops (One Toshiba and One Compaq); and His International Passport and those of many others (as displayed here).
The DSS noted that “further exploitation and forensic analysis are ongoing.”
According to DSS, aside from the items recovered from the building, about thirteen suspects, which include twelve males and one female, were arrested and brought taken to Abuja.
The statement stated that while one suspect is being profiled, the other twelve paraded were: Abdulateef Ofeyagbe, Amoda Babatunde, aka Lady K (female), Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diakola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, Ayobami Donald, Adelabe Usman, Oluwafelumi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi, and Bamidele Sunday.
The DSS, therefore, informed Nigerians and the world that Sunday Igboho and his group, “in the guise of the campaign for self-determination, have become well-armed and determined to undermine public order.”
The National Security Agency further stated that “the arrests and seizures are, no doubt, a confirmation of a grand plan by IGBOHO and his cohorts to wage a violent insurrection against the Nigerian State.”
It, therefore, alerted foreign missions and licencing authorities within and outside Nigeria about this development and the possibility that IGBOHO could declare some of his permit and identity cards missing to seek their replacement.
According to DSS, the “apprise stakeholders that the Five AK-47 assault rifles recovered from the building are suspected to be those collected by IGBOHO’s men from Nigerian Customs and Immigration personnel at Idi Iroko, Ogun State.”
It further noted that although Igboho is currently on the run and can choose to hide as long as he wants, the DSS said that “this will be the end of his shenanigans.”
The DSS, therefore, informed “those cheering and eulogising him may appeal to or advise him to do the needful. He should surrender himself to the appropriate authorities. He or anyone can never be above the law. Meanwhile, those arrested will be charged accordingly.”
