Popular Yoruba rights activist , Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho , says the recent assault on his person by the operatives of the Department of State Services was an attempt to murder him .

The activist also said he pulled off his shirt because one of the DSS operatives roughhandled him and violently held onto his shirt around his neck area.
Igboho stated this on Saturday while featuring on a radio programme, ‘ City Talks with Reuben Abati’.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that pandemonium broke out on Friday along the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway when Igboho and his supporters were on their way to meet with 93-year -old Afenifere chieftain , Ayo Adebanjo.

In a viral video , a shirtless Igboho was seen with his men daring the security operatives and throwing expletives . Many have since wondered why the activist whom many believed to have metaphysical powers and known to wear traditional bulletproof vest was topless during the face - off.

But speaking during the radio programme monitored by The PUNCH, Igboho said , “ Why I pull off my cloth was that one of the DSS operatives violently held onto my shirt . So, I decided to pull off the cloth and give it to him for us to drag the matter .

“ They started shooting when we began to drag the matter. The whole episode was an embarrassment for me. I am a responsible man, I am a Yoruba citizen, I am fighting for the rights of the Yoruba people . They don ’t have to embarrass me. ”

Continuing , the rights activist said , “ I’ m a businessman . I pay my tax to the Federal Government every month and I have evidence of tax payment . Should I be going on the road and some people attempt to kill me? For what? Why do they want to kill me because their plan on Friday was to assassinate me. Why ?

“ There is insecurity in the country. Fulani people are raping our people and killing our people in the forests but the security operatives are not going there to confront them. Instead, they are offered ransom. It is just sad that the government is threatening the common man living peacefully in the country. It should not be so.”

Igboho also said a joint team of DSS operatives, soldiers, and civil defence were on the Friday mission to arrest him , noting that there was no policeman on the team .
Though the DSS denied the attempted arrest but Yoruba socio - political group , Afenifere; Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana ( SAN) , amongst others have since condemned the DSS attempt.
Igboho rose to prominence last month when he issued an eviction notice to herdsmen accused of sundry crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State and enforced same.

Presidential spokesman , Garba Shehu, had said the Inspector -General of Police , Mohammed Adamu, ordered the arrest of the rights activist but many Nigerians had condemned such move, insisting that the security agencies should instead summon popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi , who has been seen hobnobbing with bandits in the forests of Zamfara and Niger States of late .

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

gamapoy540:
They haven't done anything yet but the coward don dey piss for body.

yanabasee1:
That's always the case for freedom fighters....


My only worries is of the oduas will not turn their back against him....


Because the same people dinning with him will be the same people that will speak bad about him at the time of his betrayal....

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

Ikpunekenwa:
Oh! Islam Islam Islam
Oh! Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
What have we done to deserve this?
You've killed our fathers, raped our mothers and sisters and maimed our brothers
Oh! Islam
When will thou have sense and be peaceful
They say you are peaceful but all we see is war, rife, abominations of highest degree, poverty, illiteracy, violence, child marriage, sexism, rape, and what not as they try to imitate the dogma of mohammed and follow his teachings
Oh! When will thou have sense and let us live peacefully in our ancestral homes
Oh Islam!
You behead those who become wise and sane to reject you
You promise us 72 virgins with pointed breasts when we kill ourselves as suicide bombers
Oh! Islam
You forbade us not to eat pork because an innocent hungry pig exhumed the petrifying carcass of mohammed and almost finished eating everything remaining the skeleton
Oh Islam have mercy on the unenlightened you've intimidated and cowered to practice because we are all human
Oh Islam
When shall your thirst for blood be quenched.


Poem by Aisha, wife of mohammed in 1201ad

gamapoy540:
They haven't done anything yet but the coward don dey piss for body.