“DSS Planned to Kill Me” — Sunday Igboho

Sunday Adeyemo, popularly referred to as Sunday Igboho, has alleged that the recent attack on his person while travelling through the Lagos-Ibadan express way by personnel of the Department of state services and some federal controlled security outfit was an attempt to murder him in cold blood.

Sunday Igboho made it known that the viral video which showed him scarcely dressed was as a result of one of the DSS operatives trying to man handle him by holding onto his Buba (shirt) at the neck region.
Mr. Adeyemo made this assertion while speaking on a radio programme ‘City Talks’ anchored by Reuben Abati’.
“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.”
Recall that Sunday Igboho rose to prominence when he issued an eviction notice to herdsmen accused of sundry crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State and enforced same when the ultimatum elapsed.

Igboho stated that it is grossly inappropriate and inhumane for a tax payer to be targeted. In his words; “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 joint team of DSS operatives, soldiers, and civil defense were on the Friday mission to arrest him, noting that there was no policeman on the team.
Though the Department of State Service (DSS) has come out to deny the allegations made by the Mr. Adeyemo, many Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere and the renown rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) have condemned the DSS.