Reports just received say that Yoruba Nation Activist, Sunday Igboho was arrested in Cotonou with a foreign passport, precisely, Republic of Benin International Passport.
SaharaReporter says that he meant to use the passport to flee to Germany where one of his wives and six of their children reside.
He was arrested by security operatives while boarding a flight.
“He was boarding a plane to Germany on Monday night with his Republic of Benin Passport to meet his family when he was arrested. Remember his second wife and six of his children live in Germany,” the report said.
He was arrested 3 weeks after the Department of State Services declared him wanted on allegations of stockpiling weapons, an accusation he has since denied.
The federal government had placed the Yoruba agitator on a stop-list in order to facilitate his arrest and directed security agencies to apprehend him once found.
In the security code, a person whose name appears on a stop-list is denied all constitutional rights and privileges that every other citizen enjoys.
The federal government’s directive against Igboho was contained in a letter by the Nigeria Immigration Service dated July 9, 2021, addressed to the director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), the inspector General of Police and the DG, National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
The letter was signed by the Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, Investigation and Compliance, A B Baba.
The DSS had raided the home of Sunday Igboho in Saka, Ibadan Oyo State on July 1, 2021.
They later paraded 12 of his followers, confirmed the death of 2 others and declared Igboho wanted on allegations of stock-piling arms.
DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya said that, “A team of joint security operatives raided the residence of Sunday Adeyemo at Soka in Ibadan. This was based on intelligence that he had stockpiled arms in the place.”
Afunanya added that the team searched the house and subsequently recovered seven AK-47 assault rifles, three pump action guns, 30 fully charged AK-47 magazines, 5,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, five cutlasses, one Jack knife, one pen knife, two pistol holsters, a pair of binoculars, a wallet containing $5, local and international driving licences in his name, ATM cards, a German residence permit No. YO2N6K1NY bearing his name; two whistles, 50 cartridges and 18 walkie-talkies.
Others are three charm jackets/traditional body armour, two laptops, one Toshiba and one Compaq laptops and his passport and those of many others.
Igboho has denied all the allegations saying that the items were planted by the DSS in order to indict him.
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