By Kayode Oyero

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, on Monday, lambasted the Department of State Services over what he described as a “nocturnal coup” carried out on the Ibadan residence of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, last Thursday.

“There is no law in Nigeria that allows you to arrest somebody in the dead of the night when you are not planning a coup and you are not an armed robber,” Falana said on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored by The PUNCH.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that the DSS on Thursday morning around 1am invaded the residence of Igboho in a Gestapo style. Though Igboho had escaped the raid, his house and cars were riddled with bullets while bloodstains splattered over the floors of the house. The DSS also said it killed two of his associates in a gun duel. Thirteen of Igboho’s guards and close associates were later paraded in Abuja on Thursday evening.

The secret police had since declared Igboho wanted. The activist is being accused of stockpiling weapons to allegedly destabilise the country under the guise of agitation for Yoruba nation but he has since denied the allegation, saying he protects himself with charms and not weapons.

Speaking on the television programme, Falana described as late, the decision of the Southern governors in Lagos State on Monday that security agencies must notify them as the chief security officer of their states before they carry out any operation within their domain.

“It is a decision that is coming rather late. Governors are chief security officers of their states in line with the constitution. Each state has a security council and the governor is the chairman,” he said.

Continuing, the senior advocate said, “You can’t have a situation where nocturnal arrests are made in a state as if you are planning a coup. Take Ibadan for instance, the invasion of the home of Igboho happened in the night and for all-day, everybody was wondering who did and that seven people were killed. People were arrested and abducted at 2am, the governor of the state wasn’t aware. So, everybody was trying to find out, calling security agencies, only for the State Security Service to issue a very provocative statement after almost 12 hours to say, ‘We did it, we killed two people, we raided a house’. Somebody attempted to evade arrest and you killed two people? The governor of the state wasn’t aware?

“In these days of kidnappings, anybody can come to your house in the night and arrest you. And these are guys who don’t wear uniforms.”

“There is no provision, unless a crime is being committed in the night; you cannot go there and arrest. In this case, you are required by law to bring a search warrant. In this case, there was no search warrant, nobody took an inventory.

“Now, Sunday Adeyemo has said I didn’t have any gun in my house. Yet, the SSS paraded guns and other ammunition. All the controversies would have been unnecessary if the SSS had behaved like a modern, civilised agency.

“These are very dangerous legacies of military dictatorship in our country,” he stated.

https://punchng.com/igboho-falana-lambasts-dss-over-nocturnal-coup/

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When a cow is rulling, expect anything.
Lawless idi.ots calling themselves law enforcement agents.


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Buhari with his actions and inactions had done more harm to the North. The whole world and the international community including foreign investor now know that PMB is the major obstacle to the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
PMB has set so many bad precedence that may come back to hunt the North.
What if a Southern President decides to use PMB's template in appointment of Security Chiefs and heads of security outfits by appointing Southern Christians to head them?

What if a Southern President appoints only Southern Christians to head NNPC, FIRS, Customs, Immigration, EFCC etc? Will MURIC and the people of the North have the moral courage to protest?

PMB used his Nepotism to destroyed the unity of the North. Niger, Benue and Plateau states are becoming estranged to the North.

Igboho should thread with caution although I believe he will be pardoned unlike dat Fendi wearing rodent dat is about to know how delicious watery beans taste like

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I feel touched.
Common sense no just common for the people in governance in Nigeria. They are only good when they are either opposition or activist other times they are just no good

triple996:
Igboho should thread with caution although I believe he will be pardoned unlike dat Fendi wearing rodent dat is about to know how delicious watery beans taste like

Tears of aboki. Igboho did nothing and he will sue the govt ass for the illegal Invasion. We are not animals in this country and no cow herders will take us back into the stone age.

And none of you dare touch kanu. I am sure your leaders and elites are aware of that fact. All of us can be mad.

This government is evil

I’m sure the vulture griller is feeling the heat too. He’s just pretending that all is well.

What do you expect from a lawless country

Sunday Igboho jazz is very potent for him to disappeared into their thin air. Sunday pls cut soap for Kanu .

Illuminatiship:

you well so?

This the times to be extremely prayerful and watchful.
The prices of stuffs in the Market is crazy, security is absent and life keeps getting tougher.
Hope the coming events of this daily unfolding life doesn't take you and me unaware.

cassidy1996:
you well so?

yes thank you.

Animal republic

Where are the BMCs? I noticed you have disappeared for some days now. Come and carry your darling daddy. He had taken this country back to stone age.

Are you guys caused? Posterity will not judge you guys kindly for supporting very many atrocities of this government.

I believe you will also come here to defend rubber stamp and APC for deleting the only hope of the masses from the proposed electoral bill.

I’m not in support of the way the Sss went about things but if they’d done the right thing,

Make I stop there

It could av made sense if DSS went to the forest and camp of bandits Leaders to show their muscles against those terrorist meanwhile they are deodorizing them in their domain and even paying them ransome after killing scores of Northerners and abducted their kids in school. This is a very bad legacy and unfortunately it will dent Buhari led government forever. Those kids that were kidnapped in Arabic school in Niger state has not yet to be rescued up till this moment and many were kidnapped in Bethel school in Kaduna yesterday yet no intelligent report to security agencies before the abduction took place but there were fictitious intelligent report that igboho possesses amunitions in his house. The amunitions that were not snapped in igboho's house only for they to show us in the media when they reached their office.

Buhari has created more divisions and has further brought hatred among tribes in Nigeria.

Tareq1105:
Buhari has created more divisions and has further brought hatred among tribes in Nigeria.

Why do you expect from a simple minded person?

Daura secret service.
Buhari has bad advisers. Instead of giving him sound advice based on the genuine outcry of Nigerians they make him feel its the opposition that is complaining hence the WAILERS TAG. Now he is the most divisive President ever.

shameful act.

A very stupid cowntry with a moronic tied looking president. Even satan would not forgive Buhari.

Buhari doesn't respect rule of law, the earlier everyone know this, the better for us.