The Lagos State Police Command declared on Thursday that Tajudeen Bakare, the leader of the fraternal institution Ogboni, is now wanted for threatening public peace and possessing firearms in the Surulere area. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, announced on Twitter that officers, acting on actionable intelligence, stormed Bakare’s residence. During the sting operation, Bakare narrowly escaped arrest.
Hundeyin explained that the operation followed the release of a video earlier in the week showing a man brandishing a pump‑action rifle and threatening public peace. The CSP‑led Rapid Response Squad, under Yinka Egbeyemi, acted on the intelligence and raided the suspect’s home in Surulere. Inside, police recovered three pump‑action rifles, a Beretta pistol magazine, one expended 9 mm cartridge, one expended and three live cartridges, and a picture frame bearing the suspect’s image. The frame identified Bakare as a monarch of the Ogboni fraternity.
The suspect, Tajudeen Bakare, narrowly avoided capture and is now declared wanted. Authorities are urging anyone with information leading to his arrest to come forward, assuring that tips will be treated with utmost confidentiality.
Bakare was previously among 49 individuals arrested during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos in 2021. He was paraded with other suspects at the police headquarters in Ikeja, where he claimed he was merely traveling to a destination in the state when stopped and insisted he was not involved in the protests.
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