Chief Sunday Adeyemo, the Yoruba Nation
agitator, better known as Sunday Igboho,
has asked the Federal High Court in
Ibadan 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 is currently in detention in
Benin Republic, filed the suit on Friday
through his counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu
(SAN).
He is, in the suit, 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 – The PUNCH and The Nation
newspapers.
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.
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