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Yoruba nation: Onitiri-Abiola’s home demolished by the Oyo government
According to a source who requested to remain anonymous, the suspect on the run has been storing firearms, boots, camouflage outfits, and other goods in one of the basement rooms.
The edifice where Mrs. Modupe Onitiri-Abiola declared Yorubaland to be an independent nation was razed by the Oyo State administration yesterday.
The multistory skyscraper is situated in Ibadan’s Oluyole neighborhood.
A widely shared video indicated that the house was demolished when security personnel noticed it was also being used as an armory.
According to Opinion Nigeria, she filmed the show there, went outside, and then posted it to social media.
According to a source who requested to remain anonymous, the suspect on the run has been storing firearms, boots, camouflage outfits, and other goods in one of the basement rooms.
The building has apparently been seized by the state government, even though no one could verify this.
“All the neighbors around denied seeing her while the demolition was going on,” the source stated. However, a few of them said she resides in that home.
Hanging around the house were security personnel and people executing the demolition order.
All personal belongings were strewn all over the floor in the room where the show was supposedly made.
While some of the building remained intact, the most of it was entirely destroyed.
Police arraign 29 Yoruba National suspects in court
Meanwhile, the 29 suspected members of the Yoruba Nation, arrested in connection with last Saturday’s invasion of the Oyo State House of Assembly and the Governor’s office were, yesterday, arraigned in court.
The suspects are standing trial before the Chief Magistrate Court for their involvement in the invasion which ruptured the peace of Ibadan metropolis and its environs.
They were arraigned on a seven-count charge which borders on treasonable felony and unlawful society before an Iyaganku Magistrate Court in Ibadan.
Other charges against the accused are illegal possession of firearms, and conduct likely to cause breach of peace of the society.
The suspects were charged by the Investigative Police Officer, Bakare Rasaq, an Inspector with the State Criminal Investigation Department in Iyaganku in Ibadan.
The offences levelled against them in the charge sheet marked Mi/520c/2024, according to the police, is in contravention of Section 516 of the Criminal Code
Cap 38, Vol.II, Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Adebola Hamzat had paraded 21 suspects on Monday.
They have arrested eight more suspects in connection with the crime.
