24 Hours After IGP Directive, Sunday Igboho Still Walks Free As Victims Recount Ordeal

 

More than 24 hours after the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, requested the Oyo State Police Commissioner to capture Sunday Adeyemo otherwise known as (Igboho) for his job in the assault on Fulani people group at Iganga, Ibarapa LGA of the express, the suspect is as yet strolling free. 

Igboho, who had prior given a seven-day quit notice to Fulani in the territory, allegedly drove his allies to the royal residence of the Sarkin Fulani of Oyo State, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, on Friday where they killed three individuals and wrecked houses and vehicles, compelling Fulani occupant in the region to escape. 

A source near Igboho told our journalist on Saturday in Ibadan that Igboho was all the while approaching his standard business at his Soka home, in Oluyole Local Government Area of the state. 

"He has no spot to go. He was not at the scene when the occurrence occurred. He had left Igangan before the episode occurred. Then, his central goal in Igangan was not to battle anybody but rather to guarantee occupants of his help for serene conjunction as you can find in the video turning into a web sensation via web-based media where he energized Yoruba individuals of his help. The lone individuals he requested to leave are psychological militants who are creating turmoil in the territory," the source said. 

Following the assaults on the networks, Presidential representative, Garba Shehu, had on Friday told the BBC Hausa Service that IGP Adamu had coordinated the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, to capture Igboho. 

Likewise, the Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde in an explanation through his media associate, Taiwo Adisa, requested the magistrate from police to capture Igboho for actuating the viciousness. 

At the point when reached, the lead representative's main press secretary, Mr Adisa, guided our journalist to ask the police for what good reason Igboho has not yet been captured. 

"It isn't the obligation of the lead representative to capture anybody however it is the obligation of the police," he said. 

Adisa said the lead representative didn't make reference to anybody's name however he explicitly said reprobates, criminals and hooligans in the state ought to be captured. 

The Oyo Police Command representative, Olugbenga Fadeyi, dismissed calls set up with him while instant messages shipped off him were not answered to. 

'How we got away from assault' 

In the interim, one of the children of the Sarkin Fulani, Umar Salihu Abdulkadir Sarki, has described how they got away from Friday's assault on their settlement. 

Salihu, who addressed one of our reporters from his concealing spot, said the assault occurred regardless of affirmations given to them by different security organizations in the state. 

He said both the police and the DSS asked them not to freeze, that nothing would happen to them. 

"The Police Area Commander in Ibarapa disclosed to me that he was accompanying Sunday Igboho and that we should quiet down that nothing will happen to us, he revealed to us that they were meeting up. 

"The Area Command later considered us and disclosed to us that we should move with Sarki to Igboora and we should remove him; as I was attempting to drive him away, the way to Igboora was hindered by the adolescents and I had no choice except for to turn around," he said.