A man who claimed to be the leader of the Ogboni confraternity, a female Osun worshipper, simply identified as yeye and about forty seven other persons were arrested weekend, during the botched Oodua Republic Mega rally at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom park, Ojota, Lagos.
The Police said dangerous weapons such as arms, ammunition, axes, cutlasses and charms were recovered from them. Also recovered were five vehicles used to convey the protesters to the venue .
Some of the suspects were said to have come from outside Lagos. As at yesterday, owners of some of the vehicles impounded contacted the command from Oyo state, informing that the vehicle in question was leased to the arrested suspects.
Parading the suspects at the command headquarters, weekend, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu, said:
“On Saturday July 3, 2021, despite warnings and security explanations given to organizers of the rally to forestall breakdown of law and orders in Lagos State, certain individuals came into the State with the intention to foment trouble under the guise of the said Yoruba rally. In curtailing their activities that portend threat to the security of the State, the command arrested 49 suspects.
The arrested suspects include : Bamidele Akomolafe,52; Dauda Abubakare,25;Adebanjo Adedajo,42; Lawal Akeem,21; Abdulsemiu Akanbi,43; Emmanuel Chidiemere,27; Taofeek Abdulsalami,25; Adesina Ibrahim,33 and adeyemi Segun,22 and 39 others.
“Items recovered from them include : one pump action rifle, two locale made pistols, four live cartridges, one expended cartridge and stickers with the inscription ‘ Oodua Armed Forces‘.
