Sunday Igboho’s Release Shows Self-Determination Isn’t A Crime – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer

Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has reacted to the release of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho).

 

Ejimakor, in a tweet on Monday, said the release of the Yoruba activist by the Beninese government showed that self-determination was neither a crime nor an extraditable offence.

 

He, therefore, called on the Nigerian government and the court to reverse its injustice against Kanu.

 

In a tweet, Ejimakor wrote: “The release of Igboho by the Benin Republic has validated the universal law that #SelfDetermination is neither a crime nor an extraditable offence. If it is, Igboho would’ve been extradited to Nigeria. If Nigeria fails to reverse its injustice to #NnamdiKanu, its courts must.”

 

Igboho was released by the Beninese Government on Monday and handed over to Prof Banji Akintoye, the leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, a Yoruba self-determination group.

 

Igboho had been detained in a prison facility in the Republic of Benin, after he was arrested with Ropo, his wife, at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou, while on his way to Germany in July 2021.
This was after he was declared wanted by the Department of State Services, DSS.