Despite a court order, the Department of State Services, DSS has failed to produce 12 detained aides of embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho in court today.
Newsflash Nigeria had earlier reported that the Federal High Court sitting in FCT, the nation’s capital, on Friday, July 23, had ordered the DSS to produce the 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation activist, Igboho, who were arrested during the controversial raid of his residence on July 1 in Ibadan.
In suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/647/2021, which was heard without the submission of the DSS as it was about fundamental rights of citizens, trial judge Obiora Egwuatu gave the secret police until July 29 (today) to present those arrested.
But the DSS failed to produce the 12 detained associates of Igboho in court today and the judge adjourned till Monday.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu had ordered that the DSS should grant the lawyer to the detained aides access to his clients.
The counsel to the DSS, I. Awo, informed the court that the DSS has no intention of disobeying the court’s order.
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However, he stated that there were facts that were necessary for the court to be aware of regarding the matter.
Awo noted that some of the names on the court order were different from the names of the persons they had arrested on July 1, 2021 at Igboho’s house.
The counsel to the applicants, Pelumi Olajengbesi, alleged that the DSS had given the applicants new names as there are discrepancies in the spelling of their names.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/647/2021, Justice Egwuatu had ordered the security agency to produce the detained aides in court with readiness to explain why the agitator’s aides should not be admitted to bail.
