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The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has clarified that the announcement of the arrest of Idris Ojo as one of the perpetrators of the June 5 attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo was a mix up on the part of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Governor Akeredolu made the clarification on Wednesday following a fact check publication made by this medium on the Chief of Defense Staff’s misleading claims on the Owo church attack ‘suspect’, Idri Ojo.
Akeredolu, shortly after TNG published the fact check, in a statement released by Richard Olatunde, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, clarified that the mix up, saying Ojo was arrested in his brother’s house in Akure and was thereafter moved and kept in the custody of the security operatives at the same time the attackers of Owo Catholic Church were arrested and brought into custody.
“The announcement of the arrest of Idris Ojo as one of the perpetrators of the June 5 attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo was a mix up from the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor.
“Idris Ojo, who is number 14 on the wanted list of the Kuje Prison Escapees was arrested in his brother’s house in Akure. His brother, Jimoh Rasheed Ibrahim, received and accommodated him after his escape from Kuje prison.
“He was thereafter moved and kept in the custody of the security operatives at the same time the attackers of Owo Catholic Church were arrested and brought into custody. Hence, the mix up.” The Governor said.
TNG reports General Irabor had during a media parley announced that a joint operation between the Nigerian Army, Department of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other intelligence agencies arrested some suspected masterminds of the Owo Catholic Church attack.
The Chief of Defence Staff gave the names of those arrested as Ojo, whose involvement is now clarified, and four others, Idris Omeiza (otherwise known as Ibn Malik), Momoh Abubakar, Aliyu Itopa and Auwal Onimisi, who Irabor said were all arrested on August 4 at Eika in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State.