Crime
Igboho is sick, former spokesman says
Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho is in urgent need of medical attention in Cotonou detention, Olayomi Koiki has said.
Koiki issued the statement despite Igboho’s official official statement through his lawyer stating that nobody speaks for him again.
A statement by the Koiki titled ‘On behalf of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho’, called on the government of Benin Republic to grant Igboho permission to receive urgent medical attention.
And Koiki didn’t state the sickness and its diagnosis in the statement
“After speaking with his legal representatives, I would like to confirm that his health needs urgent attention and we are using this medium to plead with the Government of Benin Republic, President Patrice Talon to please allow Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho to seek medical treatment due to his health,” he said in the statement.
“He needs urgent medical treatment and giving him this would help him with his health problems. We know you are just a man and one that wants progress for his country too. We have seen all the wonderful things you have done to bring good change to your country.
“President Patrice Talon, please we need your intervention to enable his quick release because his health needs urgent attention and we know that this would be granted to him, because we don’t want anything to happen to him while in the custody of your country.
“Chief Sunday Adeyemo has been held in Benin since 20th of July 2021 and now his health has been affected badly.
We would like to say thank you in anticipation
“Also we would like to use this medium to appreciate his lawyers and everyone that have stood by him during this very difficult time.”
Igboho was arrested alongside his wife in Cotonou, Benin Republic by security operatives in the West African country on July 19 after fleeing Nigeria to evade arrest by Nigeria’s secret police.
Igboho has been detained since August in Cotonou for forgery and illegal migration, after escaping from the DSS that declared him wanted for stockpiling weapons.
The Beninese court has yet to conclude his trial, which might end up in jail terms or repatriation.
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