The Department of State Services (DSS) has claimed responsibility for the shoot out that occurred at the Ibadan residence of Chief Sunday Adeyemi, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, in the early hours of Thursday, June 1.
Great Achiever Magazine reports that according to a press release by the Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, in the early hours of Thursday, 1st July, 2021, a joint team of security operatives raided the residence of Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo a.k.a. Sunday Igboho, at Soka, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Afunanya said the raid was based on intelligence that Adeyemo had stockpiled arms in his residence. On approach to the residence, the team came under heavy gun attack by nine men, suspected to be Adeyemo’s guards. Six of them were armed with AK-47 gun and three others with Pump-Action riffles.
He disclosed that in the course of the exchange, two of Igboho’s armed men were gunned down while the rest were subdued and arrested. Only one operative who was shot by the assailants on his right hand sustained injury, and has however received medical attention and is very stable.
Afunanya said the team thereafter 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 Cutlasses, One Jack knife, One Pen Knife
vi. Two Pistol holsters;
vii. One binoculars
viii. A wallet containing Five US Dollars in one Dollar denomination; local and international driver’s licences in his name, ATM Cards, a German residence permit No. YO2N6K1NY bearing his name;
ix. Two whistles;
x. Fifty Cartridges;
xi. Eighteen Walkie-Talkies;
xii. Three Voodoo charm jackets/traditional body armour;
xiii. Two Laptops (One Toshiba and One Compaq); and
xiv. His International Passport and those of many others.
He said further exploitation and forensic analysis are ongoing, while about thirteen suspects including twelve males and one female were arrested and brought to Abuja.
Afunanya said Nigerians and the world must be informed that Sunday Igboho and his group, in the guise of campaign for self-determination, have become well-armed and determined to undermine public order. Thus, the arrests and seizures are, no doubt, a confirmation of a grand plan by him and his cohorts to wage a violent insurrection against the Nigerian State.
He said foreign missions and licencing authorities within and outside Nigeria must be alerted 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, noting 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.
Afunanya stressed further: "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".
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