A fiery preacher of Yoruba supremacy, Adeyinka Grandson has been jailed for Inciting what many describe as ethnic cleansing against other Nigerian tribes.
Grandson is the convener and president of Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF). His medium of communicating his ideology is social media.
He has been sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison by a UK court.
Grandson, a UK-based Nigerian, is known for using his social media accounts to call for attacks on Igbo people and to criticise the Hausa-Fulani.
He is reputed to have order the Igbos to leave Yorubaland and threatened to unleash violence on them if they refuse to comply.
Adeyinka Grandson was first arrested by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command, and the Metropolitan Police under the approval of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London in August 2019.
Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command accused him of “stirring racial discrimination” against the Igbo and Fulani ethnic groups and also “encouraging terrorism”.
Prior to his arrest Grandson is also known for making anti-Igbo and anti-Fulani speeches on his YouTube channel for which the UK authorities have consistently warned him before he was later arrested.
Following his arrest, the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command grilled him for 9 hours, and his house was searched by the London Metropolitan Police following a warrant granted by the Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Grandson was found guilty on November 30, 2021, of eight counts of inciting racial hatred after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Consequently, he was handed a 4 and a half year jail term on Thursday, March 30, 2022.
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