Police in Ondo State have denied rumours making the rounds
that the suspected terrorists, who attacked Owo Catholic Church, have been
apprehended.
Rumours filtered into town on Thursday evening that the
perpetrators of the terror attack were nabbed by the combined team of the
Nigerian Army, Amotekun Corps and other security agents.
NAN reports that on June 5, terrorists attacked St. Francis
Catholic Church, Owaluwa Street, Owo, during church service.
Forty of the 127 persons in the church were killed, leaving
87 survivors out of which 61 are currently on admission in different hospitals
and 26 already discharged.
A viral video circulated online indicated that those who
perpetrated the terror attack had been arrested.
It was gathered that residents of Owo town besieged the
palace of the Olowo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, to confirm the news of the purported
arrest of the suspects on Thursday evening.
Oba Ogunoye, who addressed the crowd in Owo dialect, said he
only heard about the news just the way the residents heard it and asked them to
remain calm.
A source within the palace of Olowo, who didn’t want his
name mentioned, said the information was only a rumour.
“It was only a rumour. Youths besieged the palace in their
thousands when the rumour broke out, but it was discovered to be a false alarm.
“Kabiyesi was only trying to hail their doggedness as he
told them that, ‘I heard the rumour like you too’, admonishing them to be
patient to authenticate it.
“But it was later discovered that the story was about a
group arrested along the Owo/Benin boundary in possession of dangerous
weapons,” the source told newsmen.
While speaking with the NAN, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, the
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Ondo State, denied the rumour, saying
she could not confirm the arrest of the attackers.
“I can not confirm anything like that. There is no story
like that in the state,” the PPRO told NAN.
Also, a source from Nigeria Army, 32 Artillery Brigade,
Akure, who didn’t want his name mentioned, said emphatically that the
perpetrators of the Owo attack had not been arrested.
He said security agents only arrested people caught with
Indian hemp.
“It is a rumour, those arrested are those engaged in Indian
hemp business. There are about three or so, they were arrested somewhere around
Owo forest,” the source told NAN.
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