Igboho: How Police, DSS Fled From Arresting Me

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka, Sunday Igboho, has opened up on how he walked away after a combined team of the police and DSS operatives laid ambush to arrest him along the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway on Friday.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported that the team accosted him and viral videos showed him walking up to the  security men and exchanging words but the security men failed to apprehend him.

Giving more details of what happened, Igboho who spoke in an interview with Saturday Punch said:

“I was never invited. They just lay in ambush for me at Guru Maharaji and started shooting. They started shouting, ‘Where is Sunday Igboho?’ I identified myself and asked them what the problem was. They said I was under arrest and I said, ‘For what? On my father’s land? That was how it degenerated.

“When they noticed how tense everywhere was, they fled. They came in four Hilux vans and a Toyota Land Cruiser. There are bandits operating all over the place but people like me who are defending our fatherland are the ones you want to arrest. Why,” Igboho said of his encounter with the police and DSS.

His spokesman, Oladapo Salami, who gave further details of the encounter also in an interview with Saturday Punch said Igboho would not be deterred by the moves.

He said:

“Igboho went to attend a meeting with some Yoruba elders and, on his way coming back, some security agents wanted to apprehend him. The security agents blocked the road with patrol vans of Operation Burst, DSS van and made an attempt to arrest him.

“One of the vehicles used to block him is marked AK 1449. It was Operation Burst vehicle. But they were not able to arrest him. The incident happened before Guru Maharaji Camp.”

Asked why Igboho took off his shirt as he walked towards the police and DSS operatives, he said, “They made an attempt to arrest him but he has not been arrested; he is at home. Is it a crime to defend one’s people? He is a bit discouraged that some Yoruba persons are also part of the ploy, despite the fact that he is fighting a Yoruba cause.

“But this will not stop him from fighting for the Yoruba people. This is one of the challenges; he will forge ahead. There is no going back on the struggle to make his people safe, especially on their land.”

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