Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as
Sunday Igboho is currently under extradition procedure back to Nigeria.
Igboho after a raid on his
Ibadan home by operatives of the Department of State Services had escaped to
Cotonou in the Benin Republic.
This newspaper had also reported how he was apprehended in
the eye of the storm following his arrest by the operatives of the Brigade
Criminelle on July 19, 2021, in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
His counsel, Chief Yomi Aliyu, SAN, had filed a suit against
the DSS on Igboho’s behalf at the High Court in Ibadan. The court had then
ordered the DSS to pay Igboho the sum of N20 billion naira as exemplary
damages.
However in a series of court affidavits declared and signed
on behalf of the DSS by one of its operatives, Johnson Oluwole, and presented
before the High Court in Ibadan on Monday, November 22, 2021, the DSS stated
that the Yoruba Nation leader was currently undergoing extradition procedure to
bring him back to Nigeria.
The affidavit titled “Applicants affidavit in support of its
motion on notice for stay of execution of judgement of this suit No/M/435/2021
and an injunction pending the determination of the pending appeal” partly
reads, “That it is a fact that the applicant Chief Sunday Igboho has been
declared a fugitive by the Nigerian Police Force sometimes in the month of June
2021.
“That it is a
notorious fact that the applicant was arrested on the 19th of July 2021 and is
currently in the custody of the Beninese security agents undergoing extradition
procedure back to Nigeria.
“That it is fact that the applicant is under investigation
by the security agents for treasonable act that is inimical to the cooperate
existence of the country.
“That it is a fact that it will be inequitable for this
Honorable court to refuse this application for Stay against the background that
the applicant is a fugitive undergoing extradition processing in Benin
Republic.”
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