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Police Reveal How Armed Men Fired Gunshots Before Setting Igboho’s House Ablaze

Posted by Thandiubani on Tue 26th Jan, 2021 - tori.ng

Details how armed men stormed Sunday Igboho's home, fired gunshots before setting it ablaze have been revealed.

Sunday Igboho
Sunday Igboho
 
The police in Oyo state has given an update how gunmen stormed Sunday Igboho's house in Ibadan and set it ablaze.
 
According to the Oyo State Police Command, hoodlums loaded in a bus and taxi stormed the house of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho and set it on fire yesterday night.
 
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, said this in a statement on Tuesday.
 
Fadeyi also said the police were told that the arsonists shot in the air several times as they put fire to the house located at the Soka area of Ibadan.
 
He said the police had begun an investigation into the incident.
 
The house was said to have been burnt at around 3 am on Tuesday after the power supply to the area was cut off.
 
The police statement read, “At about 0620 hrs of today 26/01/2021, a report was received at the Santo Police Station that some unidentified hoodlums came to Sunday Igboho’s house at Soka area of Ibadan in a Hummer bus and Micra ( taxi) firing sporadically, and set the house ablaze.

“The mini sitting room got burnt in the process while the value of other properties is yet to be estimated.
 
“Immediately the DPO Sanyo got wind of the incident, he contacted fire service while he also went to the scene for on the spot assessment.

“The fire was eventually put out. An investigation has commenced into the incident while the Police are on the trail of the hoodlums.”


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