Police in Oyo State have arrested 20 suspected Yoruba nation agitators over Saturday’s alleged invasion of the state’s House of Assembly complex in Ibadan.
It is reported that a group of persons allegedly invaded the complex located at the Government Secretariat vicinity in an attempt to take it over. Police spokesman in Oyo State, Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a statement he issued in Ibadan.
Mr Osifeso stated that the 20 suspects arrested had in their possession three pump action guns, 29 live cartridges, two expended cartridges, 67 cutlasses, five bulletproof vests and six pairs of boots, They also had in their possession, 10 Public Address Systems, three berets with Oodua insignia crafted on them, seven belts, 11 Oodua Nation camouflage uniforms, one unregistered bus and three motorcycles, he added.
