No Hiding Place For Sunday Igboho – DSS Declares
…Confirms raid on his house by joint security team
The Department of State Services on Thursday declared that Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo a.k.a, Sunday Igboho would soon have no hiding place as his strength will fail him and the law will catch up with him.
This is as the DSS said that a joint team of security operatives raided the residence of Sunday Igboho at Soka, Ibadan, Oyo State in the early hours (about 0134 hours) of Thursday, July 1, 2021.
The DSS said that the raid was based on intelligence that Sunday Igboho had stockpiled arms in his residence.
It said that on approach to the residence, the security team came under heavy gun attack by nine men, suspected to be Igboho’s guards, adding that six of them were armed with AK-47 gun while three others were with Pump-Action riffles.
The Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, who stated these at a press briefing in Abuja, further said that in the course of the exchange, two of Igboho’s armed men were gunned down while the rest were subdued and arrested.
Afunanya said that only one operative who was shot by the assailants on his right hand sustained injury, adding that he has however received medical attention and is very stable.
According to Afunanya; “Afterwards, the team procedurally searched the house and subsequently recovered the following among others:
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) Jack knife, 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 licences 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,” he said.
The Spokesman of the DSS, also said that aside the items recovered from the building, about 13 suspects including 12 males and one female were arrested and brought to Abuja.
He said that while one suspect is being profiled, the other 12 paraded here are:
i. Abdulateef OFEYAGBE
ii. Amoda BABATUNDE aka Lady K (female)
iii. Tajudeen ERINOYEN
iv. Diakola ADEMOLA
v. Abideen SHITTU
vi. Jamiu NOAH
vii. Ayobami DONALD
viii. Adelabe USMAN
ix. Oluwafelumi KUNLE
x. Raji KAZEEM
xi. Taiwo OPEYEMI and
xii. Bamidele SUNDAY.
The DSS said that it wants to inform Nigerians and the world that Sunday Igboho and his group, in the guise of campaign for self-determination, have become well-armed and determined to undermine public order.
It further said; “This, 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 also said that the essence of the press briefing is to alert foreign missions and licencing authorities within and outside Nigeria about this development and the possibility that Igboho could declare some of his personal permit and identity cards missing in order to seek their replacement.
The DSS also said that it wants to 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.
In the words of the DSS; “The gun duel which lasted for an hour offered Igboho the chance to escape. Sunday ADEYEMO a.k.a Sunday Igboho is now on the run. “IGBOHO may run as far as he can. He may hide as long as he wants. He might have attacked security operatives as his strength carried him. But this will be the end of his shenanigans. Soon, he will not have a hiding place. His strength will sure fail him. And the law will catch up with him. The law may be slow. But it will be steady.
“Consequently, ADEYEMO/IGBOHO is advised to turn himself in to the nearest security agency. 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,” the DSS said.
