Agbekoya condemns attack on Igboho’s house, calls for perpetrators’ arrest

The Agbekoya Farmers’ Society of Nigeria has decried an attack on Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho‘s Ibadan residence on Saturday.

The Secretary-General of Agbekoya, Dr Adegbenro Ogunlana, said this in an interview with The Punch on Sunday.

Ogunlana said an attack on Igboho is considered an attack on Yoruba people, since Igboho is fighting for the liberation of the Yoruba people.

He also called for the arrest of the perpetrators while warning the attackers to desist as the society would not hesitate to fight Igboho’s enemies.

Ogunlana said, “Whoever is behind the attack on Chief Sunday Igboho’s house is an enemy of the Yoruba people. We condemn the attack and we ask the police to arrest and prosecute them.

“We will not hesitate to fight against whosoever is fighting against Chief Sunday Igboho, because he is a freedom fighter and he is fighting for the Yoruba race”.

On Friday, Agbekoya had called for the release of Igboho from detention in Benin Republic where he has been since July 19, 2021, when he was arrested on his way to Germany.

The President-General of Agbekoya, Kamorudeen Okikiola, reiterated the threat issued by the group that it would use traditional means to bring Igboho out of the prison if Benin Republic refused to release him.

He said members of the group did not need to step on the soil of the country to bring the detainee out, but noted that they had decided to give Benin Republic another chance due to the intervention of some Yoruba traditional rulers and leaders, who pleaded with them to allow the law to take its course first.

Okikiola stated, “What I said in Osogbo that we would use traditional means to secure his release is still valid. We have the power to do that. They have taken him to another detention place since we said that and they have changed the guards, but that cannot stop us when we are ready.

“His mother has been sick as a result of this and do they want the woman to die? Benin Republic should not allow the Nigerian government to corrupt them; they should release him”.

There were reports that the attack on Igboho’s house was a spillover of the clash between some members of the Park Management System and a group known as Federal Boys.

According to The Punch, two groups had been fighting since Thursday and one person was killed on Friday, while others were injured.