Police in Oyo State are on the trail of sponsors of Yoruba nation agitators who invaded government secretariat in Ibadan on Saturday.
The agitators invaded the Oyo State House of Assembly complex located inside the secretariat and hoisted their flag there in an attempt to take over the assembly.
The Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Adebola Hamzat, paraded 21 of the agitators arrested before newsmen in Ibadan on Monday.
He said some of those arrested had been listing the names of their sponsors and that police had visited some locations within Oyo State where some incriminating items were recovered.
Hamzat recalled that a member of Amotekun Corps (the security network of states in the Southwest) was injured during the invasion, just as one of the agitators who resisted arrest got injured in a gun duel with the police.
He stressed that police were not aware of any deaths during the incident.
“On Saturday, at about 8:55 a.m., information was received that some men, dressed in military-like camouflage and armed with pump-action semi-automatic rifles, were sighted on motorcycles around Olomi and moving into Ibadan.
“At about 9:15 a.m., the hoodlums, later known as Yoruba Nation Agitation Group, were trailed to the State Secretariat and to the premises of the governor’s office.
“They hoisted their flag at the House of Assembly, proclaiming the creation of a `Democratic Republic of the Yoruba.
“With police reinforcement, the miscreants were warned to disperse. The agitators turned violent and opened fire on the police, and a detachment of Amotekun Corps present,’’ Hamzat said.
He said the police responded and were joined by operatives of other security agencies who suppressed the treason.
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