The Department of State Services, has revealed the details on the raid carried out on Sunday Adeyemo’s (Igboho) Soka residence in Oyo state.
The details were contained in a press statement released on Thursday night. The statement reads:
In the early hours (about 0134 hours) of today, 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. This was based on intelligence that he had stockpiled arms in the place. On approach to the residence, the team came under heavy gun attack by nine (9) men, suspected to be IGBOHO’s guards. Six (6) of them were armed with an AK-47 gun and Three (3) others, with Pump-Action riffles.
In the course of the exchange, two (2) 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. He has however received medical attention and is very stable.
Afterwards, the team procedurally searched the house and subsequently recovered the following among others:
- Three (3) Pump Action guns;
- Thirty (30) fully charged AK-47 magazines;
- Five Thousand (5,000) rounds of 7.62mm ammunition;
- Five (5) Cutlasses, One (1) Jackknife, One (1) Pen Knife
- Two (2) Pistol holsters;
- One (1) binoculars
- 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;
- Two (2) whistles;
- Fifty (5) Cartridges;
- Eighteen (18) Walkie-Talkies;
- Three Voodoo charm jackets/traditional body armour;
- Two (2) Laptops (One (1) Toshiba and One (1) Compaq); and
- His International Passport and those of many others (as displayed here).
Aside the items recovered from the building, about thirteen (13) suspects including twelve (12) males and one (1) female were arrested and brought to Abuja. While one suspect is being profiled, the other twelve (12) paraded here are:
Abdulateef OFEYAGBE
Amoda BABATUNDE aka Lady K (female)
Tajudeen ERINOYEN
Diakola ADEMOLA
Abideen SHITTU
Jamiu NOAH
Ayobami DONALD
Adelabe USMAN
Oluwafelumi KUNLE
Raji KAZEEM
Taiwo OPEYEMI and
Bamidele SUNDAY.
Highlights of this brief are to:
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- Alert foreign missions and licensing 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.
- Apprise stakeholders that the Five (5) 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
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.