Yoruba nation activist Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has written an official letter to Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, offering to deploy personnel from his private security outfit to secure public primary and secondary schools across the state.

The security proposal comes 24 days after a highly publicized mass abduction on May 15, where suspected bandits attacked educational facilities in the Oriire Local Government Area of the state, kidnapping over 40 pupils and teachers.

In the letter dated June 9, 2026, which was addressed to the Commissioner for Education and copied to Governor Makinde, Igboho requested a comprehensive database containing the names, numbers, and exact locations of all public schools across Oyo State to facilitate a strategic security mapping and threat assessment.

The initiative is being spearheaded by his private firm, Iru Ekun Private Security Limited. According to the framework outlined by Igboho and the outfit’s legal adviser, Junaid Sanusi, the operational plan hinges on a collaborative, community-driven approach rather than replacing state actors.

The security blueprint includes the following core actions:

* Deploying a minimum of two trained personnel to be permanently stationed at every identified public school in the state.
* Tasking operatives with guarding immediate school environments and closely monitoring access gates.
* Establishing a direct communication and operational link with school principals, local management boards, and existing community vigilante groups.
* Recommending that the Oyo State Government prioritize building perimeter fences around all public schools to make monitoring and access control easier.

While commending the ongoing rescue operations being carried out by federal security agencies and the Oyo State Government, Igboho emphasized that immediate preventive measures must take center stage to stop schools from remaining soft targets for marauders. The legal team noted that the proposed deployment would be executed entirely within the ambit of the law and in coordination with the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

The proposal comes at a time of heightened tension between the activist and local authorities. Speaking recently to the executives of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Igboho claimed that while the federal government had greenlit the operations of the Iru Ekun Security Network, the Oyo State Government had previously restricted its movements, warning him that external rescue attempts could endanger the lives of the captives.

Furthermore, Igboho sparked widespread political controversy by alleging that he knows the specific politicians backing the bandits responsible for the South-West school abductions, threatening to expose their names publicly if the criminal operations do not cease immediately a claim that has prompted calls from opposition leaders for the Department of State Services (DSS) to invite him for formal questioning.