Court Orders SSS To Produce Detained Igboho’s Associates In Court

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Department
of State Services (DSS) to produce the 12 detained associates of
Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, before
it on July 29.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu gave the order after Counsel to the
applicants, Pelumi Olajengbesi, moved the ex-parte motion marked:
FHC/ABJ/CS/647/2021 dated July 7 and filed July 8.

Egwuatu also ordered Nigeria’s secret police to come and show
course why the applicants should not be granted bail.

The judge also granted the plea of the applicant, through the
affidavit of urgency filed, on why the matter should be heard
expeditiously irrespective of the imminent court vacation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that at least a dozen
of Igboho’s associates were arrested and detained by the DSS on
July 1 after a raid on Igboho’s residence in the Soka area of
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The DSS also said that it “gunned down” two of the activist’s
associates during a “gun duel” which Igboho narrowly escaped.

He was later declared wanted for allegedly stockpiling arms, an
allegation he denied.

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Department
of State Services (DSS) to produce the 12 detained associates of
Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, before
it on July 29.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu gave the order after Counsel to the
applicants, Pelumi Olajengbesi, moved the ex-parte motion marked:
FHC/ABJ/CS/647/2021 dated July 7 and filed July 8.

Egwuatu also ordered Nigeria’s secret police to come and show
course why the applicants should not be granted bail.

The judge also granted the plea of the applicant, through the
affidavit of urgency filed, on why the matter should be heard
expeditiously irrespective of the imminent court vacation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that at least a dozen
of Igboho’s associates were arrested and detained by the DSS on
July 1 after a raid on Igboho’s residence in the Soka area of
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The DSS also said that it “gunned down” two of the activist’s
associates during a “gun duel” which Igboho narrowly escaped.

He was later declared wanted for allegedly stockpiling arms, an
allegation he denied.