By The leader of the “one million boys” gang in Ibadan, Biola Ebila, has been shot dead.
The gang leader who was on the wanted list of Oyo police command, was shot dead around Olomi area of Ibadan on Sunday July 12, after resisting attempts to arrest him by officials of Operation Burst, an Oyo State Joint Security Outfit.
Ebila met his waterloo after he and his gang members went to kidnap a man simply identified as “Femi”. It was gathered after the shoot-out, the gang members escaped with Ebila’s dead body in a car and then took the lifeless body to Kudeti.
They unleashed pandemonium on Kudeti thereafter before driving the corpse to an unknown destination.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Oyo State, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, while confirming the incident said that he did not have the details of the killing.
“The information reaching me from the Divisional Police Officer, Idi-Arere, revealed that his corpse and those of his colleagues who confronted the policemen strategically deployed to that axis were brought with a tricycle to Kudeti area.
“At that instance, two of their members were also arrested. So they retrieved and brought the corpses to the station.
“He has been on the wanted list of the police and the police have been trailing him.
“What actually transpired and details on how he was killed, I don’t have it now, but he has been confirmed dead.” SP Fadeyi said.
Blackbox Nigeria also learnt that Ebila was declared wanted by Oyo State Police Command for his alleged involvement in the murder of another Ibadan ‘warlord’, Moshood Ekugbemi on the 12th of May, this year.
