At least one person has been arrested in connection with Thursday’s attack on the popular Oranmiyan House owned by Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola by a gang of arms-bearing hoodlums in Osun State.
Vanguard reports that the undisclosed number of arms-bearing thugs stormed the minister’s building shortly around 5:30 pm after the weekly meetings of his political associates, The Osun Progressives.
While screaming and threatening to kill anybody found in the complex, the invaders were said to have riddled the structure’s transformer and canopies with bullets.
According to an eyewitness, Seun Abosede, popularly called Safety,the canopies caught fire before it was eventually extinguished by workers and shop owners around the building.
Abosede further disclosed that the thugs arrived at the building in two vehicles; a red sienna vehicle and Toyota bus parked on the side leading to Ogo-Oluwa and opened fire on the building.
“Shortly after our meeting today, the people had already left, some thugs came in two vehicles; one red Sienna car and a bus, around 5:30 pm, parked on the other side of the road, move towards the building with a pump-action rifle and started shooting. It was very difficult to count their number but going by the over 30 cartridges on the floor, their number is large, they started shelling the building.
“They also shot sporadically at the transformer to set it on fire so that the whole building will be razed, but luckily, the canopies caught fire and the people we mobilised quickly extinguished the fire after the hoodlums escaped through Gbongan/Osogbo road.
“Their drivers were on standby, we were able to count six pump-action and other weapons. They operated for 15 minutes”, he narrated.
Few minutes later, a viral video surfaced on the internet showing a suspect who was allegedly caught by police in connection with the shooting being bundled into a waiting police patrol vehicle opposite the building.
