After two years Igboho regains freedom in Benin
Sunday Adeyemo, commonly known as Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba nation agitator, has been freed from Beninese authorities.
The controversial protester stated on Sunday that he was now legally free to depart Cotonou, Benin Republic’s capital, for Nigeria and other nations.
“I am now free to return to Nigeria and visit any country in the world. I have fulfilled all the legal conditions attached to my bail a few years back and I am coming home to Nigeria, my country of origin, any moment from now.
“I can confirm to you that I am now free to come back to Nigeria. There is no legal encumbrance again. Even though I have been living in Cotonou for some time, I can confirm to you categorically that I have now secured the liberty to leave Cotonou for Nigeria,” Adeyemo told the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday.
He regained freedom after two years of trial by the Beninese government.
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It was reported that Adeyemo stirred the hornet’s nest when he declared the Yoruba Nation’s sovereignty in March 2021.
He started a campaign to chase killer herdsmen and kidnappers out of the South-West states and went on to call on Yoruba in Hausa/Fulani or Igbo territories to return home.
He, however, fled Nigeria in July 2021 following a nocturnal invasion of his Ibadan residence by the operatives of the Department of State Services.
The attack led to at least one death, while some of his belongings were vandalized.
The DSS claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump-action guns, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, charms, and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.
The judgment was later set aside by the Court of Appeal in August 2022.
He was later apprehended at Cotonou’s Cardinal Bernardin International Airport while attempting to flee to Germany.
Attempts by the Federal Government of former President Muhammadu Buhari to repatriate him to Nigeria were futile.
