How I escaped DSS raid without leaving my house in 2021 — Sunday Igboho

Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has explained how he escaped arrest without leaving the house during the raid on his Ibadan, Oyo State home by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in July 2021.

Igboho said the operatives searched for him but failed to find him. 

He also claimed they mistook a cat for him and brought what he described as a “fake herbalist” to perform rituals in an attempt to locate him.

The activist made the revelations on Monday when he received a delegation of Muslim clerics at his residence in the Oyo State capital.

Recounting the incident, Igboho said he was inside the house from the beginning of the operation until the DSS operatives left.

He said: “When they came around 1:30 am, I heard a sound and was inquiring who it was; they started shooting at the room. 

“They heard my voice. 

“When they finally scaled the fence in, they planted a dynamite on the burglary, and everything completely fell apart. 

“That was where they entered. 

“I was naked, but upon hearing their voices, I wore jeans and a shirt. 

“One mind was telling me to surrender to them; the other was telling me not to surrender, else I would be killed.

“So at a point, it was looking like I was scared of them; then I immediately yelled, inquiring what had happened and why they had come to pick me up. 

“So they started shooting at close range without even seeing me.

“When they entered and were screaming that I opened the door, they pointed a gun at Dudu, my Personal assistant’s head. 

“And he kept begging me not to shoot while knocking on the door. 

“There, I suspected. 

“They forced the door open. 

“People were even lying that they shot me and I ran away with my intestines out.

“I didn’t turn into a cat. 

“They even killed it, thinking it was me. 

“They even brought a fake herbalist who was just making an incantation and performing a ritual. 

“I was in the house watching them, but they didn’t see me.

“There was this my brother who was partially blind and came out; upon sighting him, they shot him, thinking that he wanted to attack them. 

“They took the corpses away as evidence that they truly invaded my home. 

“So it was God that saved me after a prayer that some Muslim clerics did in my house, forestalling a bad vision they claimed to have seen on me.”

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