Yoruba nation promoter, Sunday Igboho, has demanded N500m damages from the Directorate of State Security over the raiding of his house and destruction of property.
The DSS raided the Ibadan home of the activist on Thursday, killing two of his aides during what they called a gun duel.
Some 13 of his guards and aides were also arrested and paraded.
But in a statement by Igbho’s lawyer Yomi Alliyu (SAN) on Saturday, he demanded the money and an apology from the DSS.
It read: “There is nowhere in the civilised world that a citizen who had no prior invitation by security agent or had resisted arrest will be so invaded with his rights to dignity of human persons, ownership of property and sanctity of life trampled upon during the invasion.
“No demand to enter was made but rather they shot their way into the house allegedly killing seven people though DSS spokesman admitted killing two people.
“A lady among the invaders was allegedly shouting, ‘if you get him gun him down’. There and then our client knew that the mission was to get rid of him and not to arrest him. This belief becomes more realistic in view of the fact that the CCTV recorder was off and taken away so that the carnage will not be shown to members of the public. Our client then knew that he was to be taking dead or alive as allegedly stated by the lady among the raiders.”
The lawyer said the DSS shot indiscriminately at the building “all the expensive vehicles in our client’s house were shot at and destroyed”.
He added, “The rampaging operatives were disappointed that they could allegedly not find a single gun or ammunition in our client’s house hence their arresting two police escorts of Mr Sunday Igboho’s guests and added their guns to those harvested from their armoury with a view to making members of the public to believe that our client keeps militia or as stated by them, he is about waging war on Nigeria. Will this be with his mere amulets. People who know our client of over 20 years will testify that Igboho Oosa does not carry gun on his person!”
“One thousand euro, two million naira, expensive jewellery worth millions, travel documents, amulets, iPhone 12 belonging to him, phones of about 15 others living in the house including those killed by the raiders and other belongings yet to be identified belonging to his wives were carted away. The only guns were those of the police escorts of his guests!
“We hereby demand that the Federal Government orders an investigation into the actions of the various security operatives led by DSS that raided Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s house with a view to sanctioning them and release all the innocent people arrested and compensate the families of those murdered.
“Our client should also be paid N500million as reparation for damage to his exotic cars that include Mercedes Benz G-Class and 2019 Lexus Car. We also demand a public apology.
“Most importantly, trampling of our client’s fundamental rights including tagging him as criminal by exhibiting DSS guns as his should stop forthwith.”
