SSS produces Sunday Igboho’s suspected armed guards, aides in court
The Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS), on Monday, presented the suspected armed guards abs aides of Sunday Igboho at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The DEFENDER reports that they were arrested following their involvement in the gun battle to stop the raid carried out by a joint security operation on the Soka, Ibadan, Oyo State residence of the Yoruba tribalist ‘warlord’, Igboho, on July 1.
They later sued the SSS on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed upon, although there is video in circulation, showing one of the arrested suspects, who is a woman, confirming to ‘Yoruba people’
that ‘warriors are already engaging the Nigeria shoja in gun battle’ which justified SSS claim that the agitators are connected with weapons and are violent having shot at one of the security agents.
A lawyer to the arrested suspects, Pelumi Olajengbesi, sued the SSS, claiming that his clients have remained underground for weeks.
Ruling on the suit, Justice Obiora Egwuatu had ordered the Service to produce the 12 suspects on July 29 but, on court day, the DSS could not honour the directive.
The judge issued another order and adjourned the case to August 2, which has been honoured.
However, only eight out of the 12 suspects paraded on July 1 made it to court on Monday.,
Their lawyer, Mr Olajengbesi, asked the court to mandate the SSS to produce the remaining four in court at the next date of the hearing.
The SSS had paraded the suspects on July 1 and accused them, along with Igboho, of stockpiling arms to cause chaos in the country.
Mr Igboho rose to fame after issuing a quit notice to Fulani in the south-west while ethnic profiling of criminals lasted in the region, over increasing insecurity that, even government’s critics like Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) agreed had been caused by little of Fulani – being alleged – but largely by Yoruba people themselves.
Sunday Igboho had also declared an independent State he called Oduduwa Republic following his advocation for the creation of a Yoruba Nation out of Nigeria.
After the SSS raid on his home, Mr Igboho fled to Republic of Benin and had boarded a flight to escape to Germany when he was flashed down and is presently in court fighting an extradition back to Nigeria.
It will be recalled that Sunday Igboho, who went round asking Yoruba traditional rulers to contribute to the fund to buy weapons for Yoruba youths towards actualisation of Oduduwa Republic, had boasted that if Nigeria’s security agents were to come to arrest him at home, “they should not come in the night and they should come with wheelbarrow because, if they are 1,000 and 100 returned alive, it must be that they disappear with the aid of charms.”
