The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed terrorism charges against two detained aides of the self-styled leader of Yoruba secessionist agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
In suit no FHC/ABJ/CR/305/2021, dated August 31, 2021, the DSS through its lawyer S.M. Bello, filed five terrorism charges against Noah Oyetunji and Amudat Babatunde (female).
The DSS alleged that Oyetunji was in possession of firearms for terrorism-related activities while Babatunde promoted terroristic acts through her Facebook account.
But reacting to the development in a chat with newsmen on Wednesday, the detainees’ lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said, “The charges are baseless, vexatious, shameful and without limbs.”
The court has not fixed any date for the hearing.
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Newsmen had reported that the DSS, last week, freed 10 of the 12 aides of Igboho after over 60 days in detention following their arrest on July 1.
The DSS had during a midnight raid on Igboho’s Soka house in Ibadan, Oyo State, arrested 12 of his aides and whisked them away to Abuja, where they had been kept in detention.
The detainees had approached the court to seek their fundamental right to freedom.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on August 4, 2021, granted bail to the 12 detainees.
They had met their bail conditions, including the provision of 24 sureties, but the DSS lawyer, Idowu Awo, had kicked against the bail granted by Justice Egwuatu to four of them, claiming that they were heavily involved in the alleged offence of arms stockpiling and other criminal activities of their boss, Igboho.
After a long dilly-dally, the secret police, in compliance with a court order, first released eight of the 12 detainees on Monday, August 30, 2021, holding onto the remaining four. Two more aides were freed last Friday while Babatunde and Oyetunji are still in detention.
Igboho, wanted by the DSS for alleged arms trafficking, has been in detention in Cotonou, Benin Republic, since July 19, 2021, when he was arrested at an airport as he tried to board a Germany-bound flight.
