The Department of State Services
has filed terrorism charges against two detained aides of Yoruba Nation agitator
Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho.
The charges were filed at the
Federal High Court in Abuja after over two months since the secret police
arrested and detained the two aides of the activist and the DSS refusal to
grant them bail despite a court order.
In the suit no
FHC/ABJ/CR/305/2021, which was dated August 31, 2021, the DSS through its
lawyer S.M. Bello, filed five terrorism charges against Noah Oyetunji and
Amudat Babatunde (female).
The DSS alleged that Oyetunji was
in possession of fire arms for terrorism-related activities while Babatunde
promoted terroristic acts through her Facebook account.
But reacting in a chat with The
PUNCH, the detainees’ lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said, “The charges are
baseless, vexatious, shameful and without limbs.”
The court has not fixed any date
for the hearing.
The DSS, last week, freed 10 of the 12 aides of Igboho after over 60 days
in detention following their arrested since July 1.
The DSS had during a midnight
invasion of Igboho’s Soka house in Ibadan, Oyo State, arrested 12 of the
activist’s allies and whisked them away to Abuja, where they had been kept in
detention.
The detainees had approached the
court to seek their fundamental right to freedom.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on August 4, 2021, granted bail to the
12 detainees.
They had met their bail
conditions, including the provision of 24 sureties, but the DSS lawyer, Idowu
Awo, had kicked against the bail granted by Justice Egwuatu to four of them,
claiming that they were heavily involved in the alleged offence of arms
stockpiling and other criminal activities of their boss, Igboho.
After a long dilly-dally, the
secret police, in compliance with a court order, first released eight of the 12
detainees on Monday, August 30, 2021, holding onto the remaining four. Two more
aides were freed last Friday while Babatunde and Oyetunji are still in
detention.
Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria
– Femi Falana, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa and Ifedayo Adedipe – had said that the DSS
was inviting anarchy and lawlessness into the country by not obeying the order
for the release of the 12 detainees.
Igboho, wanted by the DSS for
alleged arms trafficking, has been in detention in Cotonou, Benin Republic,
since July 19, 2021 when he was arrested at an airport as he tried to board a
Germany-bound flight.
Details later…
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