German authorities have been charged to repel attempts by the Federal Government of Nigeria to deport the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho and his wife, Mrs Ropo.
Report had it that Sunday Igboho and his wife, a German citizen, were arrested on Monday, in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, hours after escaping from Nigeria.
However, challenging the grounds of their arrest, Igboho’s lawyer, Chief Yomi Aliyu, SAN, said the government of the Republic of Benin as well as the German authorities should not allow the embattled activist to be turned into the country considering the grave consequences that might follow the action.
A statement made available to Oyo Reporters by Aliyu read that judging by the attack and killings at Igboho’s Soka, Ibadan residence by security agents on July 1, it was clear that his life was in grave danger.
The statement read, “It is a shocking news that Nigerian government has gotten Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho Oosa, arrested by INTERPOL in Republic of Benin notwithstanding the political nature of his offence and what the DSS earlier said that they refrained from arresting him so as not to overheat the polity of South-Western Nigeria.
“It is advisable for the INTERPOL and Benin Republic to be aware of the savagery acts committed in our client’s house in the wee hours of 1st July, 2021 – between 1am and 3am – shooting their way through and killing 2 people in the process and maliciously damaging his properties in the course of that illegal invasion.
“Though the invading DSS officers did not state any reason for their invasion to our client before or during invasion, they later paraded 13 people and ammunition which our client denied to be his as he is a peaceful campaigner for self-determination and it is on good record that the guns and ammunition displayed were the same displayed in 2013 in another instance.
“This could be seen on 2013 Facebook though DSS has dismissed this on their website. But what they cannot deny is that when they were leaving our client’s house, they left with two corpses and people arrested and nothing more except two guns belonging to the police escorts of Mr Adisa Saheed Olalekan.
“One of the people they killed was Mr Saheed Adisa Olalekan of Oladams Motors, Osogbo, who came to Sunday Igboho’s house to discuss auto business. He came with 2 police escorts. Though the policemen were not among the people paraded to the public, their guns were among those displayed.
“The Extradition Treaty of 1984 between Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Republic of Benin excluded political fugitives. It also states that where the fugitive will not get justice because of discrimination and/or undue delay in prosecution, the host country should not release the fugitive.
“Now, Article 20 of African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights to which the four countries are signatories made agitation for self-determination a fundamental right to be protected by all countries. This made Chief Sunday Adeyemo a political offender who cannot be deported and/or extradited by the good people of the Republic of Benin for any reason.
It further read that “Secondly, that he cannot get justice or even be killed is apparent in how those arrested in his house were detained for more than 21days now without access to their lawyers. Even the wife among them could not change her undies for 21days! Which inhuman treatment can be more than this?
“Again, another wife of our client, Mrs Ropo Adeyemo, a German Citizen, has been arrested together with her husband in Cotonou. What offence has she committed to warrant this? We urge the good government of the Republic of Benin and international community, especially Germany, to rise up and curb the impunity of the Nigerian Government by refusing any application for extradition of our client who already has application before ICC duly acknowledged.”
