The Directorate of Secret Service (DSS), on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has filed five terrorism charges against Jamiu Oyetunji and Amudat Babatunde, aides of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba Nation agitators.
The duo are among the 12 Yoruba Nation agitators arrested on July 1, 2021, in Sunday Igboho’s House in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State.
Amudat, a citizen media practitioner, was the lady, who transmitted live the invasion of DSS on Sunday Igboho’s house and frustrated the clandestine operation of the secret police on the house.
It would be recalled that on July 1, 2021, ahead of the planned Yoruba self-determination mega rally scheduled to hold in Lagos, a group of armed men dressed in military fatigue and DSS outfit invaded the Soka residence of the rally convener, Sunday Igboho, where they killed two persons and arrested 13 others.
12 of the 13 persons arrested and paraded in Abuja were: Abdulateef Ofeyagbe; Amoda Babatunde, aka Lady ‘K’, Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diakola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, Ayobami Donald, Adelabe Usman, Oluwapelumi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi and Bamidele Sunday. DSS said that it is profiling the 13th person. While the arrested persons were recently released, DSS held back Amudat and Jamiu.
Killed in the operation was Saheed Adisa, popularly known as Adogan and Igboho’s maternal uncle known as Alfa.
The leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof. Banji Akintoye, who claimed that the two were brutally murdered, said that Adogan was shot 48 times before they butchered him to death.
The entire Yoruba holds that the prime target of attack was Sunday Igboho, who might have been mercilessly murdered in cold blood if he had not escaped during the invasion.
It was gathered that at least 10 vehicles belonging to Igboho, including his G-wagon, Prado SUVs, and valuable properties, furniture, and windows were destroyed during the invasion.
The attack on Sunday Igboho’s house was condemned by Southwest socio-cultural and political groups such as Afenifere, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), office of Aare Onakankanfo of Yoruba land, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum and Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO) and individuals like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
Though, details of the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja is not known, the defendants were accused of committing acts of terrorism, including being in possession of prohibited firearms, and over 1,500 rounds of ammunition without lawful authority.
The secret police also accused them of involving in activities “in preparation to commit acts of terrorism”.
In the fifth count which concerns only Ms Babatunde, the DSS alleged that she used her Facebook account “as a platform to promote terrorist activities”.
