A retired police commissioner Sunday Odukoya on Saturday dared the men who invaded Oyo State Government Secretariat in Ibadan to shoot him rather than gun down the policemen who came to disperse them.
Odukoya is the executive assistant to Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde on security.
In a video circulating on social media, Odukoya confronted the agitators, saying, “Shoot me, don’t shoot police officers because I was the one that called them. So, you don’t need to confront them. They came here to do their official duties, just shoot me. You invaded this place. Who did you take permission from? I was talking to you, and you are talking to another person.
“This is governor’s office. You don’t have the right to just come in without any invitation. Can you just come to the governor’s office without an invitation? It is not done.”
The police said they arrested 20 suspects over the invasion.
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Police spokesman Adewale Osifeso, in a statement, said the suspects had in their possession three pump action guns, 29 life 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.
“The suspects who wore military camouflage came heavily armed in an unregistered bus and had cutlasses, pump action rifles, cartridges, assorted charms and an Oodua Nation agitation flag with them.
“They were overpowered and completely suppressed by officers and men of the police in concert with those of sister security agencies,’’ he stated.
