Armed thugs have attacked the Soka residence of the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Ibadan.
Some supporters were reportedly attacked and injured during the face-off.
Igboho is being detained in a prison facility in the Republic of Benin after he was arrested at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou, while on his way to Germany in July, 2021.
The armed thugs, it was learnt, raided his house on Saturday around 3pm.
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One of Igboho’s aides, Onaolapo Ademola Omiyale, confirmed the incident in a live Facebook broadcast.
He claimed that Igboho’s supporters were targets of the attack.
Omiyale said: “Soka Junction, Sanyo, Academy, Oremeji is currently under attack, they are attacking anyone wearing Yoruba Nation Vest and Igboho’s face caps.”
Sources in the area said there was pandemonium in the Soka community in the afternoon following sporadic gunshots.
In the videos, some of Igboho’s supporters who reportedly confronted the armed thugs, sustained injuries.
The police spokesperson in Oyo State, Adewale Osifeso, was yet to speak on the incident as at the time of filing this report.
In July 2021, officers of the the Department of State Service (DSS), raided the residence of Sunday Igboho on the basis of what it claimed was credible intelligence reports that he stockpiled arms and ammunition in the place.
The raid which led to the killing of three of his men and arrest of a dozen others was widely condemned.
On September 17, 2021, an Oyo State High court ordered the Federal Government to pay Igboho the sum of N20 billion over the raid which it said was a gross violation of his fundamental human right.
Igboho has been in detention in Benin Republic, following his failed bid to escape the country after being declared wanted by the Police and the raid on his Ibadan residence by men of the DSS.
The Nation
