Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho Oosa, a Yoruba activist and self-determination advocate, has demanded that the Federal Government pay the sum of 500million as reparation for the damage to his exotic cars that include a Mercedes Benz G-Class and 2019 Lexus car as well as a public apology and in-depth investigation into the actions of the various security operatives led by DSS that raided his house
Igboho’s counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), made the demand on Saturday night, adding that the government through the security agencies trampled on the fundamental rights of his client by tagging him as a criminal and exhibiting DSS guns as his, adding that the act should stop forthwith.
He implored all governors of the Southwest States that know the yearnings of their people and Igboho’s large followership, to wade in before it becomes a hydra-headed security problem in all their domains.
Chief Alliyu stated that “we have his standing instructions to defend and act as counsel in all situations we deem appropriate especially where his fundamental rights as a citizen of Nigeria is violated or threatened as done on Thursday 1st July, 2021. Every Nigerian, albeit the whole world, is aware that in his open crusade for the establishment of the Oodua Republic, our client has always preached peace and warned his followers never to have recourse to violence.
“He is always saying that it is ‘God and all that will fight for the Yoruba Nation. We can boldly say that as people who followed his campaign, but not necessarily supporting dismemberment of Nigeria, that no casualty has ever occurred wherever such rallies were carried out. This must have been done in more than 20 Yoruba towns and cities as of date.
“To now invade the residence of such a peace-loving crusader is tantamount to calling a dog a bad name to hang it. It must be reiterated, and with emphasis, that it is the right of a group of homogeneous and/or indigenous people in a Federation to ask for self-determination following the rules of international law and the UNO Charter. Our Constitution also permits freedom of association and, by necessary implications, freedom to dissociate,” he said.
He added that there is nowhere in the civilised world that a citizen who had no prior invitation by security agent or resisting arrest will be so invaded with his rights to dignity of human persons, ownership of property and sanctity of life trampled upon during the invasion, explaining that Section 12 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act enjoins the police and/or any security operatives to first make a demand to enter a place where a suspect is and if their demand was not granted to break open the “outer or inner door of any house or place.”
According to him, no demand to enter was made but rather they shot their way into the house allegedly killing seven (7) people though DSS spokesman admitted killing two people which involved an old imam that used to lead Muslim occupants in prayers and observing TAHJUD at the time of the barbaric raid.
“A lady among the invaders was allegedly shouting, “if you get him gun him down.” There and then our client knew that the mission was to get rid of him and not to arrest him. This belief becomes more realistic since the CCTV recorder was off and taken away so that the carnage will not be shown to members of the public
“Our client then knew that he was to be taking dead or alive as allegedly stated by the lady among the raiders. It should be stated that without any resistance or shooting at the security operatives they started shooting from the gate and ensuring that the building was made uninhabitable.
“Also, all the expensive vehicles in our client’s house were shot at and destroyed. The rampaging operatives were disappointed that they could allegedly not find a single gun or ammunition in our client’s house hence their arresting two police escorts of Mr Sunday Igboho’s guests and added their guns to those harvested from their armoury to make members of the public believe that our client keeps militia or as stated by them, he is about waging war on Nigeria.
“Will this be with his mere amulets. People who know our client for over 20 years will testify that Igboho Oosa does not carry a gun on his person. It is elementary law that whenever a search warrant is executed on a house the house owner must first search the persons sent to execute the same and also sign the inventory of what was recovered in executing the warrant!
“This explains why the DSS invaded the house in the night shooting everything at sight, killing and maiming the occupants to plant their illegal guns on our client. We have also been reliably informed that those arrested were being tortured to incriminate our client that guns and ammunition were recovered from his house,” the legal counsel stated.
He reiterated that Sunday Igboho knew that he would be arrested one day hence he retained his services, adding that he could not be that daft to keep incriminating articles in his house.
“Our client’s house is a five-bedroom duplex with five chalets of two and three bedrooms. These were totally damaged with operatives allegedly arguing on whether to burn down the edifice as done to his former palatial house. The lady officer allegedly put her foot down against arson.
“One thousand euro, two million naira, expensive jewelleries worth millions, travel documents, amulets, iPhone 12 belonging to him, phones of about 15 others living in the house including those killed by the raiders and other belongings yet to be identified belonging to his wives were carted away. The only guns were those of the police escorts of his guests. More importantly, the DSS and other operatives that raided the house said they came to arrest Sunday Igboho but ended up arresting innocent people instead of him.
“Apart from being a serious violation of these peoples’ peoples constitutional rights it is an assault on Section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act and decisions of our Courts in that regard, we hereby demand that the Federal Government orders an investigation into the actions of the various security operatives led by DSS that raided Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s house to sanction them and release all the innocent people arrested and compensate the families of those murdered,” Chief Alliyu concluded.
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