By Ife Osemedua
365Daily- Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Ighoho, has been released from detention in Benin Republic.
Accordimg to the Punch Newspapers, Igboho was released on Monday, March 7, 2022, to Yoruba Nation arrowhead and leader of the Umbrella body of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Banji Akintoye.
Quoting a statement issued by the group’s Communications Secretary, Maxwell Adeleye, Akintoye described the release of Ighoho as a triumph of truth over darkness in Yorubaland.
On July 1, 2021, the Department of State Services raided Igboho’s Ibadan residence, killing two of his aides.
12 of his aides were arrested and later released after months in detention at the secret police’s headquarters in Abuja.
Igboho was subsequently declared wanted by the DSS for allegedly stockpiling arms to destabilise Nigeria, an allegation he denied. He later fled to the neighbouring Benin Republic in July 2021 but was arrested by the Interpol at a Benin airport on July 19, 2021 while boarding a Germany-bound flight.
He was remanded in a prison in Benin Republic since then where he was said to have faced trial for immigration-related offences, amongst others.