The Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho’s wife, Ropo Adeyemo has revealed why they were arrested, she declined that the were arrested with fake passport in Cotonou, Repúblic of Benin.
Heritagenewsng reports that the wife of the detained agitator who was released after the court proceedings yesterday revealed the true story. She claimed that, “my husband has authentic passport and not fake”
Contrary to the report circulating in the media that Chief Igboho had been remanded at Brigade Criminelle in Cotonou, Benin Republic over the possession of a fake passport.
According to the wife of the Yoruba agitator, Madam Ropo, Sunday Igboho was neither in possession of fake passport nor caught with fake passport.
She advised the rumour monger to stop circulating fake news, saying that such can only worsen the progress of the Yoruba struggles “ Kindly disregard the news, my husband was not arrested over fake passport,” she said while attending to a press conference in Benin Madam Ropo Adeyemo further explained the real cause of the arrest.
Heritage gathered that the arrest occurred while four people were traveling out of the country; two of his associates to Dubai while Chief Sunday Adeyemo and Madam Ropo Adeyemo were returning to Germany , they were suddenly stopped because their names had appeared on the Interpol watchlist which led to their immediate arrest for clearance
Heritage however gathered that the other two going to Dubai are already in their destination now, she stated further, “our passports were already stamped by Benin immigration and while we were about boarding, the immigration officer who attended to us received a call and immediately asked me to come back”, the officer claimed he needed to re-check her passport if it was okay.
She further said that the husband, Chief Sunday Igboho who was already in the flight ahead, then made a walk in to the toilet while the immigration was checking her passport again.
She said everything went well, and was asked to proceed which she did immediately, but was again asked to wait and answer some questions regarding her travels.
The wife confirmed that she was this while communicating with Igboho over the phone and appealed to him not to leave the toilet since he was not called. But Chief Igboho insisted that he couldn’t stay behind while the wife was being interrogated by the immigration and police authorities in Cotonou
Chief Igboho who could no longer stand the interrogations decided to appear there , he made an appearance and the Beninese security operatives swooped in and said that their names were on Interpol watchlist which could not enable them to proceed with their trip to Germany.
When our Correspondent asked how the media got the information about the fake passport, the wife, who was released and her passport returned by an order of the court, equally wondered.
“I don’t know where Nigerian blogs got the information of the doctored passport from as that was not the case at all. Infact, the Nigerian government as we speak don’t even have access to Igboho as against the several claims in media.
“At the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou that fateful day, the security operatives invited us to their station and then the rest is history,” she revealed.
While the story of being chained like a dog was also debunked by her, heritagenewsng can reliably report that Igboho and his wife have been in custody since their arrest as they attempted to board a flight to Germany.
According to the wife who was released and her passport returned to her said that all the fake news about her husband possessing fake passport must have been the plans of the government of Nigeria to confuse agitators of the real scene so they can lobby their way out to abduct Igboho to Nigeria
She said that even the Commissioner of Police in Nigeria even tried to create fear in the judges by claiming that Chief Sunday Igboho has a lot of charms and if released may kill those judges.
She however confirmed that the Buhari government is threatening the Benin people of sanctions if Igboho is not released to them.
Heritagenewsng recall that the Yoruba agitator, Chief Sunday Igboho was declared wanted on July 2 after a raid on his Ibadan residence by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) but he escaped arrest.
He was however declared wanted by the Nigerian Police for possessing illegal arms in his residence., until he was arrested 19 days after he was declared wanted.
Meanwhile, Heritagenewsng has gathered that Igboho has dragged the Federal government of Nigeria to court in Ibadan, seeking to compel the Attorney General of the Federation and the Department of State Services to pay him N5bn in damages over the invasion of his house in the wee hours of July 1 by DSS operatives.
Igboho, who filed the suit on Friday through his counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN) was contending that the invasion of his house in the Soka area of Ibadan, during which DSS operatives gunned down two of his associates and arrested 12 others, was not only malicious but also amounted to a violation of his fundamental human rights.
Igboho told the court that the DSS operatives stormed his residence at about 1am on July 1 and “without announcing who they were or asking the applicant (Igboho) to open his gate, shot their way through, killing two people, including an elderly Imam doing Tahjud (vigil), shooting at cars, thereby destroying them and not sparing animals, like cats and dogs in total violation of the intendments of the fundamental human rights provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Act.”
He said for two hours, the DSS operatives shot through the ceiling and roof of his house, thereby depriving him “the quiet enjoyment of his house for the period of the armed invasion of the said property.”
The activist, through the SAN, is urging the court to declare that the AGF and the DSS, through the midnight operation, violated his right and trampled on the nation’s constitution.
He wants the court to order the defendants to return his personal belongings, which they allegedly carted away during the operations.
He listed the items to include N2m cash, €1,000, travel documents belonging to him and his family members, gold jewellery and wristwatches, a I-Phone 12 mobile phone, Samsung mobile phone, and other items yet to be ascertained.
For the invasion, Igboho, through his lawyer, is urging the court to compel the AGF, the DSS and the DSS DG to also pay him N500m to cover for the damage done to his cars and house and another N5bn as “exemplary and/or aggravated damages for breaching the applicant’s fundamental rights in the course of the illegal and malicious invasion of his residence.”
He also wants the court to compel the defendants to tender a public apology to him, to be published in two national dailies.
In addition, the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator wants the court to declare that he has “unquestionable and inalienable fundamental right to peacefully campaign and seek for self-determination of Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and lobby the legislature to amend the 1999 Constitution.”
He wants the court to declare that it is illegal for the DSS and the AGF to be hunting him with gun, with a view to arresting him because he is “propagating his belief in association with other like minds to create a Yoruba Nation/Oduduwa Republic for his indigenous Yoruba people.”
He also wants the court to restrain the defendants and their agents from further harassing him or causing his bank accounts to be frozen.
The court has yet to fix a date for the hearing of the suit. ,,