Popular lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has said that Nigerian Police cannot arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, on the basis of a quit notice he recently issued to Fulani herdsmen in Igangan, Oyo State.
Although Falana had earlier argued that Igboha had no right to issue such an order, he said on Friday that the police could not nab him because it had failed to arrest others who had issued similar orders in the past.
“I urge the police not to venture to arrest Mr Sunday Igboho because in this same country, when others issued quit notices to other nationalities in the past, they were not arrested.
“Almajiris have been deported, beggars have been deported, the poor and destitute have been deported and the government never raised any issue.
“The government has failed the people but the people can mobilised to make the government alive to its responsibility of protecting lives and properties,” he said, adding, “It has got to that stage when every community has to organised its security because we can no longer depend on the government.”
“Sunday Igboho cannot be arrested because others who gave quit notices in the past were not arrested. In fact, when somebody gave a quit notice to the Igbo people in the north, a governor ordered the arrest of the person but the police never arrested him.”
