A grioup of five Yoruba Nation agitators have been arrested for hijacking a radio station in Ibadan to declare secession from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They were apprehended by men of the Nigeria Police.
The hijackers at about 6:00 a.m on Sunday stormed the station and held hostage the staff of Amuludun FM, seized their phones and proclaimed the establishment of a Yoruba Nation and secession from Nigeria on air.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Adebowale Williams, paraded the suspects at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan on Sunday.
Mr Williams said that operatives of the command, while on intelligence driven patrols, got a distress call that some members of a group driven by a separatist agenda, had forcefully hijacked a radio broadcast station, Amuludun 99.1 FM, located around Moniya, Ibadan with the intent to declare liberation from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He said that the command responded swiftly in a well coordinated rescue operation and arrested the suspects.
