…says there is no basis for begging Buhari to release Igboho
A pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has labelled those who invaded the house of estranged Yoruba self determination campaigner; Sunday Adeyemo (Sunday Igboho) as terrorists in Uniform.
The group also stated that it has no basis to appeal to the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to release Yoruba Nation agitator stressing that Igboho committed no offence whatsoever.
General-Secretary of the group, Sola Ebiseni, said this while reacting to a demand by some Igbo leaders requesting the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu during a visitation to the states house, Abuja some days ago.
He said: “There is no basis for the Yoruba people to beg the Federal Government to release Sunday Igboho.”
“In spite of the impunity of the Buhari government, we insist that Nigeria shall not be governed except by the rule of law.
‘We do not have to beg the President to release Sunday Igboho. Sunday Igboho did not commit any offence whatsoever; that’s our position. Those who went to invade his house were terrorists in Nigerian security uniform and they have no right whatsoever and that has been tested in a court of competent jurisdiction. Igboho has been absolved and the government was visited with N20bn worth of damages.”
“The deep night invasion of Sunday Igboho’s house with the aim of killing him which resulted in killing of two of his companions and wanton destruction of his property is already adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction as a most barbaric act of state terrorism with the sum of N20bn in damages.”
Afenifere also said there was no charge of criminal conduct against Igboho in any court.
The group however called on the Federal Government to obey the order of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, which awarded N20bn against the Department of State Services for damaging Igboho’s house during a midnight raid on July 1, 2021.
Igboho, who was arrested by the Republic of Benin authorities at the Cotonou Airport on July 19, 2021, has been in a detention facility in the neighbouring country.
Those who invaded Igboho’s House were Terrorists in Uniform – Afenifere
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