The 12 aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, arrested by the Department of State Services during a raid on Igboho’s Ibadan home have asked to be taken before the Federal High Court in Abuja and be granted bail.
The detainees, who been in the custody of the DSS since the past week in a suit filed by their counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu, SAN, on Friday demanded to be set free.
Alliyu argued that his clients’ continued incarceration without being charged to court breached the provisions of the law stipulating that suspects should be arraigned before acc ourt within 24 hours of their arrest.
Among the plaintiffs are Abdullateef Ofeyagbe, Amoda Babatunde (alias Lady K), Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diekola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, Ayobami Donald, Adelabe Usman, Oluwapelumi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi and Bamidele Sunday.
The Department of State Services (aka DSS) and its Director-General are the defendants.
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The detainees, through Alliyu, are praying the court for a court order “mandating and compelling the defendants to produce the applicants to enable this honourable court to inquire into the circumstances constituting grounds of their arrest and detention since July 2, 2021 and where it deems fit to admit the applicants to bail.”
They want the court to order the DSS to explain why they should not be admitted to bail “in accordance with the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and other extant laws in Nigeria.”
The DSS had said it arrested 13 persons and killed two in the raid on Ighobo’s house.
It also declared wanted Igboho, who escaped during the raid.
According to the DSS, Igboho was in illegal possession of firearms but the Yoruba Nation agitator, who has gone underground, said the firearms claimed to have been recovered from his house were planted by the DSS to implicate him.
The court is yet to fix a date for the hearing of the suit.
Source: Punch