JUST IN: Lawless DSS Finally Bow To Pressures, Produces 8 out Of 12 Sunday Igboho’s Aides In Court.

JUST IN: Lawless DSS Finally Bow To Pressures, Produces 8 out Of 12 Sunday Igboho’s Aides In Court.

The DSS on Friday only allowed their lawyers to see four of them in detention

Nigeria’s secret police, Department of the State Services (DSS) has produced 8 of the associates of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, who were arrested in the house of the agitator. 

The Department of State Services on Monday presented the aides of Sunday Igboho who were arrested on July 1 at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but have sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed on.

A lawyer to the arrested aides, Pelumi Olajenbesi, sued the DSS, claiming that his clients have remained underground for weeks.

Ruling on the suit, Justice Obiora Egwuatu had ordered the DSS to produce the 12 aides on July 29.

But on court day, the DSS failed to honour the directive.

The judge issued another order and adjourned the case to August 2.

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.

However, Justice Obiora Egwuatu told the DSS that when a court of competent jurisdiction gave an order, such orders were meant to be obeyed.

Peter Afunanya, the DSS spokesman, said the security agency recovered illegal arms including seven AK-47 rifles and thousands of ammunition from Igboho’s house.