The Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday, has released 8 of the 12 aides to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
The release comes barely the 48 hours ultimatum issued to the Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Bichi, by Sunday Igboho’s lawyer, to release them or risk being jailed for contempt.
DSS operatives had arrested all the 12 aides at the Ibadan, Oyo State home of Sunday Igboho on July 1.
The agency had adamantly continued to detain the detainees despite the bail granted them by the Federal High Court in Abuja on August 4.
The detainees’ lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, on Friday, had issued 48 hours ultimatum issued to the DSS director-general to release them or risk being jailed for contempt.
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“Such blatant disregard for, and contemptuous, spiteful and insolent disrespect for an order of court if allowed to fester would undermine the very integrity of the court,” said Pelumi Olajengbesi, the detainees’ lawyer, on Friday.
The DSS has not offered any explanation for releasing only eight out of the 12 detainees who have all met their bail conditions.
It will be recalled that the agency had filed an application for the Federal High Court in Abuja to reverse the bail granted four of the detainees.
It, however, later withdrew the application, saying it would pursue its objection to the bail granted the four persons at the Court of Appeal.
