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DSS Obeys Court Order, Produce All Igboho’s Aides in Court

The Department of State Service (DSS) on Wednesday produced all 12 detained aides of Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

This comes less than seventy-two hours after the court ordered the agency to produce all aides of the Yoruba Nation agitator.

On Monday the DSS produced only eight of the detained aides at the court.

The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but a lawyer to the apprehended aides, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed on.

The DSS had paraded the aides and accused them of stockpiling arms to cause chaos in the country.

After the DSS raid on his (Igboho) home, he fled to the Benin Republic and is presently in court fighting extradition back to Nigeria.

Mr. Igboho gained social media prominence after issuing an ultimatum to Fulani herdsmen in Ibarapa to vacate the lan

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