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Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has arrived at the Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic,Igboho, who was arrested around 8pm on Monday by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, may be tried for immigration-related offences.
The activist and his wife, Ropo, were arrested at the airport when they wanted to catch a flight to Germany. “He was arrested in Cotonou on Monday night while he tried to travel. He was already at the airport with a passport. The immigration officers suspected his passport and so they stopped him. In the process, they discovered he was the one,” a source familiar with the matter had toldMany Yoruba-speaking supporters of the activist were seen on the court premises on Thursday afternoon.1, arrested about 12 of his aides and killed two of them in a gun duel.
The activist, who went underground after he was declared wanted, was, however, apprehended on Monday night in Cotonou. It was learnt that the Nigerian government had written the Interpol in the Francophone West African nation to hunt Igboho.gathered that the Nigerian government planned to extradite the activist on Wednesday but Benin Republic insisted that it would not be part of any process that was against due process.
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