In the face of crippling economic and security challenges, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Buhari, has had the additional challenge of dealing with dissent, and very worrisome and unrelenting agitations for regional autonomy and outright secession. One of the arrowheads of these agitations, is the leader of the proscribed Igbo nationalist organisation, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who was abducted in Kenya and whisked back to Nigeria, ‘Gestapo-style’ to continue his trial in court. However, his arrest did not deter his counterpart in the South West, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, who after the invasion of his residence by men of the DSS on July 1, 2021, fled the country to neighbouring Republic of Benin where he was arrested by the authorities last week, while attempting to board a flight to Germany along with his wife, Ropo. Now the concerted efforts by the Nigerian Government to extradite Igboho, are the subject-matter of the present dip
A Beninese court in Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, should be returned to police custody pending further investigation. This order is coming after a 13-hour hearing, which ended at around 11:20 pm on Monday, July 26, 2021.
The case was heard behind closed doors, as the court placed some restrictions on attendance, granting access to only lawyers, Igboho’s wife, Ropo, who was just released from police detention in Cotonou, and a few others in the courtroom.
According to a report from Punch, journalists and Igboho’s supporters who thronged the court in large numbers were barred from the court proceedings, so details of the judgment have been sketchy as of the time of filing this report.
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The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), at the weekend, cautioned the Federal Government to desist from any attempt to clamp down on self-determination agitators, warning that such could only exacerbate national crises.
A statement by the OPC Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, flayed Federal Government’s approach in Igboho’s ordeals.
It maintained that the use and application of force on self-determination agitators had only justified Federal Government’s lack of respect for human rights and intolerance for the views of others.
While condemning last Monday’s arrest of Sunday Igboho by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, the OPC publicity scribe described the treatment meted out to Igboho in Nigeria and also in Cotonou as very unpleasant.
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The embattled Yoruba nation freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho may have slipped the line while in the struggle to ensure that the South Western Nigerians are treated with fairness and equity, leading to his current predicament, a section of Nigerians suggests.
Igboho’s struggle which led to his current ordeal began when he gave an ultimatum to the Fulani herdsmen in Oyo State and some other parts of the region to vacate the forests.
Recall that Sunday Igboho, on January 16, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Fulani community in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo state, over allegations that they were responsible for the rising insecurity and kidnapping in the area.