The Department of State Services has released two more aides of Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo. The secret police released Tajudeen Irinloye and Uthman Adelabu on Friday after over 60 days.
The detainees’ lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, confirmed their release. Two more Sunday Igboho’s aides have been released.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on August 4, 2021, granted bail to the 12 detainees. They had met their bail conditions including the provision of 24 sureties but the DSS lawyer, Idowu Awo, had kicked against the bail granted by Justice Egwuatu to four of them, claiming that they were heavily involved in the alleged offence of arms stockpiling and other criminal activities of their boss, Igboho. Awo had filed a remand application for the four detainees saying their release would affect investigation. He had also approached an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja to revoke the bail earlier granted to the four persons. The detainees were arrested around 1am on July 1, 2021, when the secret police “raided” Igboho’s Ibadan residence in a Gestapo style, killing two other associates of the activist in a “gun duel.”
The 12 detainees had approached the court to seek their release. Recall that ODUDUWA NEWS reported that barely 61 days after their arrest by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), eight of the 12 aides of Yoruba nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, have regained their freedom. The counsel to the eight detainees, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said that secret police released his clients on Monday, Aug. 30.
ODUDUWA NEWS gathered that the secret police, however, refused to release the remaining four detainees.
According to the report, those released appeared at a press conference on Monday afternoon with their lawyer.