A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Security Services (DSS) to produce the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation Fighter, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who have been in their custody since the second of July, 2021.
The DSS arrested Igboho’s associate after a raid on his resident in Soka area in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, said the security agency received illegal arms – including seven AK-47 rifles – and thousands of ammunition from Igboho’s house.
As a result, the agency moved the supporters to the federal capital territory where they have been in detention.
The associate’s said their arrest and detention were unlawful and as such the suspects through their lawyer, Pelumi Olajemgbesi , filed an application asking the court to “inquire into the circumstances constituting grounds of their arrest and detention since July 2, 2021 , and where it deems fit admit applicants on bail”
Olajemgbesi also sought an order from the court “mandating and compelling the respondents to produce the applicants before this honourable court and to show why they shouldn’t be granted bail in accordance with the provision of section 32 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015”.
Ruling on the application on Friday, Obiora Egwatu, the judge, said there was merit in the application.
Consequently, the judge granted all the orders sought and asked the DSS to produce the applicants in court on July 29.
The applicants are Abdulateef Ofeyagbe, Amoda Babatunde, Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diakola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, Ayobami Donald, Adelabe Usman, Oluwapelumi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi and Bamidele Sunday
