The State Security Service (SSS) killing of Sunday Igboho’s relatives is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order, says the Presidency.

On Thursday, the SSS stormed the home of Mr Igboho, an agitator for the realisation of a sovereign Yoruba nation, killing two of his relatives.

Garba Shehu, Mr Buhari’s media aide, in a Tuesday statement, said, “Mr President’s directives to security services regarding anyone seen to be carrying arms, particularly AK-47, are clear and require no further illumination.

“Assault weapons are not tools of peace-loving people, and as such, regardless of who they are and where they are from, the Security Agencies should treat them all the same.”

Mr Buhari had in March directed the military to shoot anyone with sophisticated weapons like AK-47, a directive he gave to clamp down on bandits terrorising various parts of the country.

However, activists and lawyers faulted the directive, saying Nigeria is not a jungle where security operatives shoot anyone with arms.

During a one-day visit to Lagos in June, Mr Buhari restated that his shoot on sight directives remained in place, warning that his regime will act decisively and firmly against those attacking the country’s security facilities.

In January, Peoples Gazette reported how Mr Buhari endorsed lethal force against Sunday Igboho and his supporters.

A police chief told The Gazette that Mr Buhari asked Igboho and his followers to be shot on sight if they continued to “disturb public peace” in Oyo and attempt to drag Nigeria into a civil war.

The SSS said it attacked the Yoruba separatist leader’s Ibadan residence and killed two people because Mr Igboho was planning a “violent insurrection against Nigeria.”

“In the course of the exchange, two of Igboho’s armed men were gunned down while the rest were subdued and arrested. Only one DSS operative, who was shot by the assailants on his right hand, sustained injury. He has, however, received medical attention and is very stable,” said the SSS,” said the security agency.

Joromi1:
God will punish DSS and all those jubilating over the brutal murder of Igbogho's relatives. Including all Buhari supporters and Fulani asslickers association of Nairaland and beyond.

Wiseandtrue:
Garba Shehu, Mr Buhari’s media aide, in a Tuesday statement, said, “Mr President’s directives to security services regarding anyone seen to be carrying arms, particularly AK-47, are clear and require no further illumination.



You visited someone's home by 2.00am and you saw them wielding guns

Which kind lie be this

Do we still have a judiciary No search warrant, nothing!

You just invade someone's home and opened fire!

Na like this Hitler take start!

AnotherAlien:

They also destroyed the CCTV cameras. So, the only evidence they have is their word of mouth. The story doesn't add up. Unfortunately, they're backed by the FG, so nothing can happen to them.

That's why Buhari can say kidnappers kidnapping school children in the North are doing their business!

He keeps setting dangerous trends!

Anyone dressed in uniform can just come to your house, no court order! No search warrant and just kill or whisk someone away!

This was exactly how the Baptist boys were kidnapped!

Kidnappers went and say that they are armies in a secret mission

Armies that knows how to check point in the East couldn't stop them till they carted over 100 students away!

How do you teach securities in schools when even someone that calls himself the president doesn't know the importance

He says and does anything! He's the court, the president, the minister for petroleum...

We will not give up! We will keep speaking and doing the right thing, so that we can always have a place called home!

NwaNimo1:
The State Security Service (SSS) killing of Sunday Igboho’s relatives is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order, says the Presidency.

On Thursday, the SSS stormed the home of Mr Igboho, an agitator for the realisation of a sovereign Yoruba nation, killing two of his relatives.

Garba Shehu, Mr Buhari’s media aide, in a Tuesday statement, said, “Mr President’s directives to security services regarding anyone seen to be carrying arms, particularly AK-47, are clear and require no further illumination.

“Assault weapons are not tools of peace-loving people, and as such, regardless of who they are and where they are from, the Security Agencies should treat them all the same.”

Mr Buhari had in March directed the military to shoot anyone with sophisticated weapons like AK-47, a directive he gave to clamp down on bandits terrorising various parts of the country.

However, activists and lawyers faulted the directive, saying Nigeria is not a jungle where security operatives shoot anyone with arms.

During a one-day visit to Lagos in June, Mr Buhari restated that his shoot on sight directives remained in place, warning that his regime will act decisively and firmly against those attacking the country’s security facilities.

In January, Peoples Gazette reported how Mr Buhari endorsed lethal force against Sunday Igboho and his supporters.

A police chief told The Gazette that Mr Buhari asked Igboho and his followers to be shot on sight if they continued to “disturb public peace” in Oyo and attempt to drag Nigeria into a civil war.

The SSS said it attacked the Yoruba separatist leader’s Ibadan residence and killed two people because Mr Igboho was planning a “violent insurrection against Nigeria.”

“In the course of the exchange, two of Igboho’s armed men were gunned down while the rest were subdued and arrested. Only one DSS operative, who was shot by the assailants on his right hand, sustained injury. He has, however, received medical attention and is very stable,” said the SSS,” said the security agency.

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