The news that Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, had been freed from jail was met with jubilation on Monday.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the activist has been detained in the Benin Republic since his arrest over seven months ago.
Last year, Sunday Igboho was detained in the West African country while attempting to enter Germany through the country.
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Last Thursday, reports attributed to one of Igboho’s supporters said that the persecuted campaigner will be released from detention.
The rumors were put to rest on Monday, when attorneys close to the situation revealed that Igboho had been released under specific terms.
“The circumstances aren’t too difficult. He won’t conduct a rally and won’t be able to leave Cotonou, according to one of the attorneys.
The remark comes after Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, the umbrella organization of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, happily announced Igboho’s release, an event that sparked delight among Yoruba people.
Igboho’s release, according to a lawyer for the activist, Chief Yomi Aliyyu, SAN, was made possible with the cooperation of two famous people.
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He noted that praises should be ascribed to two prominent Yoruba personalities, the persons of Nigerian playwright and novelist, Prof Wole Soyinka and Prof Akintoye.
Allyu, however, stressed that parts of the condition given for the release of the activist state that under no condition should Igboho leave the medical centre nor Cotonou.
However, Igboho’s counterpart from the Southern region, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnnamdi Kanu is still in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has in a recent publication, warned that it is unsafe to further keep Biafra agitator.
The rights group in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said President Muhammadu Buhari government and the DSS, has showed no regard to the nation’s judiciary for failing to release Kanu.
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Anaedoonline.ng reports that HURIWA lampooned the DSS for allegedly denying Kanu access to his lawyers thereby violating court orders.
According to the rights group, the continuous detention and unfair treatment of the IPOB leader will only worsen unrest in the Southeastern region of the country.
HURIWA urged President Buhari to immediately set up a proper mechanism for an all out negotiation and dialogue on ways to restore peace, security and stability to the South East, stressing that it was dangerous for Kanu to remain in detention till April when presidential primary elections would commence.
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