The Department of State Services (DSS) has defied a court order to produce the 12 detained aides of Yoruba-nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
Following this defilement, The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja adjourned the suit brought by 12 detained associates on Thursday till Monday, August 2, 2021.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu also 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. However, he stated that there were facts that were necessary for the court to be aware of regarding the matter.
Awo said 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.
Recall that the suspects had sued the DSS before the Federal High Court Abuja, on grounds that their fundamental human rights had been infringed.