Breaking: Court Orders DSS To Produce Sunday Igboho’s Associates

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. Sunday Igboho’s associates were taken by the DSS during a raid on his house at the beginning of the month.

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 the Department of State Services, DSS to come and show cause 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 Sunday 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” while Sunday Igboho narrowly escaped.

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

The judgment came a day after a court in neighbouring Benin Republic deferred hearings on the case brought by the Nigerian government to bring Sunday Igboho back to Nigeria after he had been apprehended while making plans to travel to Germany last Monday.

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