DSS complies with Court order, presents Igboho’s 12 arrested aides in court

The Department of State Service (DSS) on Wednesday complied with the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja, presented the arrested 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a.  Sunday Igboho, before the court. The DSS had at the court sitting on Monday brought eight of the 12 detained aides to the court. The court, therefore, ordered the DSS to bring all aides of Igboho at the next sitting, before adjourning the suit to Wednesday.

The DSS arrested the 12 aides during the raid on Igboho’s residence on July 1.

Counsel to the arrested aides, Pelumi Olajengbesi, had sued the DSS, arguing that his clients have been detained for weeks without trial, adding that the detention is an infringement on their fundamental human rights.

The DSS after the raid of Igboho’s residence on July 1, accused the Yoruba activist of stockpiling arms to cause chaos in the country.

Igboho had fled to the Republic of Benin after the DSS raided his residence. He is currently in court battling to prevent his extradition from the Benin Republic to Nigeria.

Igboho had on July 28 denied trafficking in arms or inciting violence in Nigeria.

The lead counsel to Igboho, Ibrahim Salami, had revealed that Sunday Igboho informed the presiding Judge in Benin Republic that the Nigerian Government included him on a watchlist because he was resisting the killer Fulani herdsmen from invading Yoruba land and killing people in the southwest Nigeria.

“Igboho said he never had any criminal record in Nigeria. He told the judge that the Nigerian government was after him because he was defending the Yoruba race against killer Fulani herdsmen.

“He said that he ran away from Nigeria because the government was after his life,” Salami had narrated.