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Popular Yoruba rights activist , Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho , says the recent assault on his person by the operatives of the Department of State Services was an attempt to murder him .

The activist also said he pulled off his shirt because one of the DSS operatives roughhandled him and violently held onto his shirt around his neck area.
Igboho stated this on Saturday while featuring on a radio programme, ‘ City Talks with Reuben Abati’.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that pandemonium broke out on Friday along the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway when Igboho and his ers were on their way to meet with 93-year -old Afenifere chieftain , Ayo Adebanjo.

In a viral video , a shirtless Igboho was seen with his men daring the security operatives and throwing expletives . Many have since wondered why the activist whom many believed to have metaphysical powers and known to wear traditional bulletproof vest was topless during the face - off.

But speaking during the radio programme monitored by The PUNCH, Igboho said , “ Why I pull off my cloth was that one of the DSS operatives violently held onto my shirt . So, I decided to pull off the cloth and give it to him for us to drag the matter .

“ They started shooting when we began to drag the matter. The whole episode was an embarrassment for me. I am a responsible man, I am a Yoruba citizen, I am fighting for the rights of the Yoruba people . They don ’t have to embarrass me. ”

Continuing , the rights activist said , “ I’ m a businessman . I pay my tax to the Federal Government every month and I have evidence of tax payment . Should I be going on the road and some people attempt to kill me? For what? Why do they want to kill me because their plan on Friday was to assassinate me. Why ?

“ There is insecurity in the country. Fulani people are raping our people and killing our people in the forests but the security operatives are not going there to confront them. Instead, they are offered ransom. It is just sad that the government is threatening the common man living peacefully in the country. It should not be so.”

Igboho also said a t team of DSS operatives, soldiers, and civil defence were on the Friday mission to arrest him , noting that there was no policeman on the team .
Though the DSS denied the attempted arrest but Yoruba socio - political group , Afenifere; Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana ( SAN) , amongst others have since condemned the DSS attempt.
Igboho rose to prominence last month when he issued an eviction notice to herdsmen accused of sundry crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State and enforced same.

Presidential spokesman , Garba Shehu, had said the Inspector -General of Police , Mohammed Adamu, ordered the arrest of the rights activist but many Nigerians had condemned such move, insisting that the security agencies should instead summon popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi , who has been seen hobnobbing with bandits in the forests of Zamfara and Niger States of late .

https://punchng.com/dss-attack-was-an-attempt-to-assasinate-me-sunday-igboho/

They haven't done anything yet but the coward don dey piss for body.

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

powerful

gamapoy540:
They haven't done anything yet but the coward don dey piss for body.

The coward here is the combined military, DSS men that have to ambush a bold civilian on the high way when they know the road to his house


But they can't ambush school children kidnappers who take 700, 500 children on kidnapping excursion

The government is something else.

Criminal gangs in the security unit of Nigeria

That awkward moment........

Wahala be like Dangote yanshi oooo, no towel dey fit cover am

Na wa for Nairaland o

Hmm, why is it that this government put more effort to arrest and eliminate those who say no to killings? Till date I have never seen any news of arrest of any killer herdsmen or bandits, none has been jailed or prosecuted, they kill and it it, yet walk free! No DSS to arrest or harass them, no police to detain them... But if someone says no to killings, no to kidnapping, the next morning DSS, police and Army are knocking on your door to arrest you. To talk online sef one has to be careful coz their agents full nairaland

As in, is the government behind these kidnappings and killings?

Boko haram are being set free, bandits are free to walk about but those who criticize the president and media are gaged and jailed... This is no more secret, a lot is going on with this regime

Don't mind them.

They enemies will gather together in one way, and God will scatter them in seven ways.

Whosoever gathers together against the good of the Yoruba shall fall for our sakes.

And now some Ogun people are refugees in Benin republic.


Black People...

This guy should calm down...that he is still free is because the north still want alliance with south west.. especially regarding 2023. Make em no dey feel like james bond.

Wahala for Nigeria be like Dss

The silence of this government on the issue of banditry may lead to anarchy. Why are the military quick to jump on innocent civilians down south but turn a blind eye towards northern bad elements?

I saw a thread where Boko Haram even have a Sandhurst Military War College and yet the combined security forces can't locate.

If care isn't taken, this may be the last government of a United Nigeria

Really? Then that's a sad occurrence that shows our security personnel are very lawless.
Why not issue an invitation or go to his house and arrest him.?

Proactivity Leads To Productivity!!!
@Seniorwriter

That's always the case for freedom fighters....


My only worries is of the oduas will not turn their back against him....


Because the same people dinning with him will be the same people that will speak bad about him at the time of his betrayal....

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Always watch your back,

trust no one in your circle,

even your closest friend can sale you out on a good offer.

DON'T LEARN THE HARD WAY

yanabasee1:
That's always the case for freedom fighters....


My only worries is of the oduas will not turn their back against him....


Because the same people dinning with him will be the same people that will speak bad about him at the time of his betrayal....

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

May Allah forgive you and all those who s the evil comment you have uttered above.

Else the consequences would follow you and all your generations yet unborn.

I just pray Allah forgives you and may he protect us from the evil we cause to ourselves through our reactions.
He is indeed the All Forgiving and All Merciful.

To be loyal to the Northerners, Southerners and westerners need to surrender those people who are preventing fulanis to kill their people.

It's a sad reality

Igbohos arrest will not turn out well if it happens.Our security agencies should be wise to this fact.

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Some stupid ipobs be running their mouth anyhow here. Where is your warlord Nnamdi KANU? He ran away nd give you orders while he's in a safer place. Why did he not stay in naija make fg arrest am?

God bless you for this piece of note

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

Happy new month to everyone here, I just need someone to bless me here

Hmn..


Thank God for your life.

gamapoy540:
They haven't done anything yet but the coward don dey piss for body.

why don't you talk with your brain?

One can clearly see that this government have hands in the insecurity of this nation.

The likes of Gumi openly dialogue with bandits that terrorize the north, DSS can't trail him to their hideout but they can attempt to arrest freedom fighters just because such a person is against their hidden agenda?
I weep for this contree

R