The embattled Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, has demanded payment of N500 million as compensation for damage to his exotic cars and other property by the operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS).
Chief Yomi Alliyu, (SAN) counsel to Sunday Adeyemo Igboho in a reaction to the invasion of his client’s residence also asked the federal government to order an investigation into the invasion of his house with a view to sanction the DSS.
The activist in the letter further demanded the release of all the people arrested in his residence at Sooka in Ibadan by the DSS operatives during the invasion.
In the letter, Chief Alliyu SAN, while describing as “grossly illegal and unconstitutional” the invasion of the his client , (Sunday Adeyemo Igboho) house by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) stated that the claims of the DSS operatives was a total falsehood, declaring that the said recovered ammunition were planted in his house to frame him up.
“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 with a view to sanctioning them and release all the innocent people arrested and compensate the families of those murdered,” he said.
Chief Alliyu added, “Our client should also be paid N500million as reparation for damage to his exotic cars that include Mercedes Benz G-Class and 2019 Lexus Car. We also demand a public apology.”
“We are counsel to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (otherwise known as Sunday Igboho Oosa) and we have his standing instructions to defend and act as his 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, 1 July, 2021.
“Every Nigerian, albeit the whole world, is aware that in his open crusade for the establishment of Oodua Republic our client has always preached peace and warned his followers never to have recourse to violence.
“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 at date.”
Chief Alliyu (SAN), alleged that the security operatives invaded Sunday Igboho’s residence, “not with the intent to arrest him, but to outrightly kill him” adding that the federal government should prevail on the DSS to stop tagging him as a criminal and also to apologise to Igboho for the invasion.
“it is the right of a group of homogeneous and/or indigenous people in a federation to ask for self determination in accordance with the rules of international law and UNO Charter”, Chief Alliyu said, “our Constitution (as amended) also permits freedom of association and, by necessary implications, freedom to dissociate.
” €1000, N2 million, 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 in lieu of him. Apart from being a serious violation of these peoples’ constitutional rights, it is an assault on Section 7 of ACJA and decisions of our courts in that regard.”
