Just In: Court rejects DSS’s suit seeking continued detention of four Igboho’s aides

An Abuja Federal High Court, on Tuesday struck out a suit filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) seeking to further detain four of the twelve (12) aides of Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, who is better known as Sunday Igboho.

The motion was thrown out by Justice Obiora Egwuatu following the dramatic withdrawal by counsel to the security agency, Mr Idowu Awo.

At the resumption of the case, the DSS lawyer stunned the court just as the motion was about to be heard, announcing his decision not to go ahead with the matter.

He, rather informed the court that he had filed a notice of appeal against the bail granted to four out of the 12 detainees.

Awo stressed that he would prefer to pursue the appeal at the Court of Appeal.

Justice Egwuatu, thereafter struck out the motion following the no objection by the detainees’ lawyer, Mr Sunday Adebayo.

An Oyo State High Court, earlier in August, granted an ex-parte motion prohibiting the DSS and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, from arresting Sunday Igboho.

The  court went further to restrain the DSS and Malami from freezing Igboho’s financial assets, as well as restrict any form of intimidation and harassment by the duo.

The DSS paraded Sunday Ighoho’s aides on July 1 after a raid on his home in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

They were accused of stockpiling arms to cause chaos in the country.