Nigerian activist Sunday Adeyemo Igboho was presented to the prosecutor and will return to the Cotonou prosecutor’s office on Monday. Asked by the services in his country demanding his extradition from Benin where he found refuge, he was arrested at Cotonou airport on Monday.
as reported from Cotonou, Jean-Luc Aplogan
The separatist and his wife are presented again on Monday for the indictment. They are still in Benin and are still being held by the Criminal Brigade.
Things happened in two stages: the first sequence, Mr. Sunday Igbohoand his wife was presented to the prosecutor early in the evening. They were heard and the lawyers made their observations.
In the second sequence, the Cotonou Public Prosecutor’s Office sent them to the First Bureau of Investigation, given that the facts against the accused are of a criminal nature. They were led to the judge, but it did not go far. Suddenly they come back on Monday.
Mr Sunday has dismissed allegations by the Nigerian government, which presents him to the Benin authorities as an arms smuggler and detainee.
He declared that he was not a terrorist and indicated that he feared for his life upon extradition. Several Nigerians established in Cotonou and came from Lagos were present at the prosecution’s premises.
What do we know about Yoruba’s separatist movement? We talk more often about Biafran’s separators.
For his supporters, Sunday Igboho is a defender of the Yoruba people’s rights against the Fulani shepherds. For his opponents, he advocates racial hatred. Adedayo Ademuwagun, an analyst at the Songhai Advisory Board, believes that the Nigerian authorities should be afraid of him.
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