PEOPLES GAZETTE
A gang of five Yoruba Nation agitators who stormed a radio station Sunday morning in Ibadan to declare secession from the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been apprehended by the police.
At about 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, the agitators hijacked broadcast activities from the staff of Amuludun FM, seized their phones and proclaimed the establishment of a Yoruba Nation and secession from Nigeria on air.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Adebowale Williams, paraded the suspects at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan on Sunday.
Mr Williams said that operatives of the command, while on intelligence driven patrols, got a distress call that some members of a group driven by a separatist agenda, had forcefully hijacked a radio broadcast station, Amuludun 99.1 FM, located around Moniya, Ibadan with the intent to declare liberation from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He said that the command responded swiftly in a well coordinated rescue operation and arrested the suspects.
Mr Willams said that no personnel from the establishment or any other persons were hurt in the incident.
The commissioner of police said that he had detailed an investigation team, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, to demystify the circumstances around the incident.
The team was also directed to expand the network of arrests through painstaking intelligence-driven investigation.
He declared the act as criminal, unpatriotic and a clear case of terrorism which would be met with adequate sanctions under the laws of the land…
