Police Arrest 20 Suspected Yoruba Nation Agitators For Invading Oyo Assembly Complex
Twenty suspected Yoruba nation agitators have been arrested by Police in Oyo State over Saturday’s invasion of the state’s House of Assembly complex in Ibadan.
Osun Defender reports that a group of persons allegedly invaded the complex located in the vicinity of the government secretariat in an attempt to take it over.
Confirming the arrest in a statement, Police spokesman in Oyo State, SP Adewale Osifeso, stated that the 20 suspects arrested had in their possession three pump action guns, 29 life cartridges, two expended cartridges, 67 cutlasses, five bulletproof vests, and six pairs of boots.
They also had in their possession 10 Public Address Systems, three berets with Oodua insignia crafted on them, seven belts, 11 Oodua Nation camouflage uniforms, one unregistered bus, and three motorcycles, he added.
He said the suspects were successfully thwarted in their attempt to forcefully take over the secretariat by the combined effort of the police in collaboration with sister security agencies.
“The suspects who wore military camouflage came heavily armed in an unregistered bus and had cutlasses, pump action rifles, cartridges, assorted charms, and an Oodua Nation agitation flag with them.
“They were overpowered and completely suppressed by officers and men of the police in concert with those of sister security agencies,’’ he stated.
Osifeso described the act of the suspects as criminal and unpatriotic and a clear case of treasonable felony and terrorism, assuring that appropriate punishment would be meted out to those found culpable.
