Bloodbath In Ibadan, As Cult Group Attacks OPC members
There was bloodbath in Omi-Adio community of Ibadan, the Oyo state on Tuesday when a cult group known as ‘Gobe’ attacked members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the community.
It was gathered that 10 people were seriously injured during the violent clash between members of a notorious gang called “Gobe” and members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the Omi-Adio community.
The residents said trouble started when about 20 members of the “Gobe” gang attacked some members of OPC at Ido junction on Monday evening.
One of the OPC members, identified as Adigun, was seriously injured with dangerous weapons such as cutlasses, machetes, and broken bottles.
Our correspondent learnt that members of the gang had drawn a battle line with OPC members for allegedly disturbing their operations in the community.
Eyewitnesses said that apart from the OPC members, the rampaging “Gobe” gang members also inflicted injuries on passers – by, who came to board commercial motorcycles back to their homes at the Ido junction after the working hours.
It took the intervention of a team of policemen from the Omi-Adio police station before the violence was prevented from escalating, as OPC members in the community had already mobilized themselves.
The Chairman of the Otunba Gani Adams led OPC in Ido Local Government Area, Comrade Muritala Ifawale Adekola (a.k.a Ele omo buruku danu) reported the attack on his members to police at the Omi-Adio Police Station.
On sighting the OPC leader in company of a police team storming the scene of the attack, but the attacking “Gobe” gang members immediately took to their heels, dropping some of their weapons on the ground.
Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday, Comrade Muritala said members of the gang were criminals who OPC had in the past apprehended and handed over to the police for various criminal activities in the past.
Muritala added that on returning from either police net or prison, the criminals reorganized themselves into a gang under the leadership of one Sarafa Gobe to wage war against OPC members in the community.
