The Department of State Services has set eight out of the 12 arrested aides of the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, freed 61 days after their arrest in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The PUNCH reports that the DSS released the eight detainees on Monday.
Their lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, gave the names of the released detainees as Abdullateef Onaolapo, Tajudeen Irinloye, Dikeola Ademola, Ayobami Donald, Uthman Adelabu, Olakunle Oluwapelumi, Raji Kazeem and Taiwo Tajudeen.
The freed aides were said to have appeared at a press conference on Monday afternoon with their lawyer.
Report has it that the secret police, however, refused to release Amudat Babatunde, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Oyetunji, and Bamidele Sunday on the ground of their culpability in the alleged stockpiling of arms and other criminal activities levelled against their boss, Igboho.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on August 4, granted bail to the 12 detained aides of the separatist leader.
They were said to have met their bail conditions, including the provision of 24 sureties, but the DSS lawyer, Idowu Awo, kicked against the bail granted by Justice Egwuatu to four of the detainees — Babatunde, Shittu, Oyetunji and Sunday.
Awo had sought a remand application for the four detainees saying their release would affect investigation.
The detainees had spent over 60 days in DSS custody since their arrest around 1am on July 1, 2021, when the secret police raided Igboho’s Ibadan residence, killing two of his associates, allegedly in a gun duel.
The 12 detainees had since approached the court to seek their release.
