The Oyo State Police Command on Monday, paraded 21 suspects in connection with the invasion of the Oyo government secretariat on Saturday,13th April.
The invaders who claimed to be members of the Yoruba nation agitators, were paraded alongside seized exhibits such as guns, ammunition, plaques with the Yoruba nation insignia, cutlasses, walkie-talkies, and other communication gadgets.The Oyo state commissioner of police, Adebola Hamzat told journalists that the suspects would be charged with treasonable felony and terrorism as investigations intensify to unmask their sponsors, and other suspects still at large.
The intruders were said to have arrived at the secretariat in buses, hoisting a flag suspected to belong to some agitators.
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