Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo, widely known as Sunday Igboho, has narrated how he avoided arrest during the Department of State Services (DSS) operation on his Ibadan residence in July 2021, insisting that he remained inside the house throughout the raid. Speaking on Monday while hosting a group of Muslim clerics at his residence in Ibadan, Igboho said the security operatives combed the house in search of him but were unable to locate him. He further alleged that the operatives mistook a cat for him and later brought in what he described as a “fake herbalist” to perform rituals in an attempt to discover his whereabouts.
According to him, he stayed inside the residence from the moment the operation began until the DSS team departed. I heard a sound and was inquiring who it was; they started shooting at the room. When they finally scaled the fence in, they planted a dynamite on the burglary, and everything completely fell apart.
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. “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. “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.
People were even lying that they shot me and I ran away with my intestines out.” Igboho also dismissed long-standing rumours that he transformed into a cat to evade arrest. 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.
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