The Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, has disclosed that the operatives of the Department of State Services during the controversial raid on his Ibadan residence in July 2021 came with a herbalist to perform rituals in an attempt to apprehend him.
Penpushing reports that Igboho made this known while sharing his experience with some Muslim delegations who visited his residence in Ibadan on Monday, and how he escaped the arrest following attempt to kill him by the operatives
The activist stated that he was inside the house throughout the operation, but the operatives could not find him despite surrounding his residence, adding that they mistook him for a cat which they killed
“When they came around 1:30 am. I heard a sound and was inquiring who it was; they started shooting at the room. They heard my voice. When they finally scaled the fence in, they planted a dynamite on the burglary, and everything completely fell apart. That was where they entered. I was naked, but upon hearing their voice, I wore a jean and shirt. One mind was telling me to surrender to them; the other was telling me not to surrender, else I would be killed’, he said.
“So at a point, it was looking like I was scared of them; then I immediately yelled, inquiring what had happened and why they had come to pick me up. So they started shooting at close range without even seeing me’, Igboho added.
“When they entered and were screaming that I opened the door, they pointed a gun at Dudu (my personal assistant)’s head. And he kept begging me not to shoot while knocking on the door. There, I suspected. They forced the door open. People were even lying that they shot me and I ran away with my intestines out.”
Penpushing further reports that he dismissed the rumour that he turned into a cat on sighting the operatives, stressing that the operatives sighting his partially blind brother they shot him, thinking that he wanted to attack them
“I didn’t turn into a cat. They even killed it, thinking it was me. They even brought a fake herbalist who was just making an incantation and performing a ritual. I was in the house watching them, but they didn’t see me.
“There was this my brother who was partially blind and came out; upon sighting him, they shot him, thinking that he wanted to attack them. They took the corpses away as evidence that they truly invaded my home. So it was God that saved me after a prayer that some Muslim clerics did in my house, forestalling a bad vision they claimed to have seen on me.”
Penpushing also reports that it would be recalled that operatives invaded his private residence at Soka area in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of July 1, 2021, following months of heightened tension between him and the late President Muhammadu Buhari government.
The activist before the operation, became prominent after issuing an ultimatum to some Fulani residents in parts of Oyo State, accusing them of involvement in kidnappings and other violent crimes.
Penpushing reports that he, thereafter, declared that criminal elements among the Fulani would be driven out of Yorubaland and intensified his campaign for the establishment of a sovereign Yoruba Nation.
The late Buhari administration viewed some of Igboho’s activities as a threat to national security, leading to attempts to arrest him, and during the raid, the security operatives claimed they recovered firearms and ammunition from the residence and arrested 13 of his associates.
Penpushing further reports that the Department of Security Service (DSS) equally confirmed that two of Igboho’s aides were killed during the operation after what the authorities described as an exchange of gunfire.
The activist, following the raid, escaped from Nigeria and was later arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic, while attempting to travel to Germany, but after months of legal proceedings, Beninese authorities released
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