IGBOHO: Court order favours Igboho, bars DSS, AGF, others

Yoruba agitator cooling off i a Beninese prison has got some reliefs from the federal government which declared him wanted, and the federal government working to bring him back from Benin where he had gone to flee to Germany.

Justice Ladiean Akintola of the Oyo High Court approved an ex-parte motion restraining AGF Abubakar Malami, and the DSS from arresting, harassing, intimidating and blocking bank accounts of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo Igboho.

An ex-parte order offers only days of relief based on a one-side hearing in a suit before the court hears both parties. Such orders have been abused in Nigeria’s justice system

Igboho’s lawyer Yomi Aliu (SAN) secured the order on Wednesday.

“The court has ordered that he must not be arrested, detained, or killed in the next 14 days. The account also said that his account should not be blocked,” Aliu said following the case.

An earlier application he filed on behalf of the agitator was, among other things, seeking N500 billion damages for invasion of his house in Ibadan, in July.

The hearing in the suit was adjourned to August 18.

The federal government and Igboho’s Beninese lawyers are fighting it out in Cotonou over the return of the agitator declared wanted for allegedly stockpiling weapons.