The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), sitting in Abuja has ordered the government of the Republic of Benin to pay self acclaimed Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a sum of 20 million CFA for unlawful detention and violation of his fundamental human rights.
In a unanimous judgement delivered by Justices Gberi-Bé Ouattara, Sengu M. Koroma and Ricardo Claúdio Monteiro GONÇALVES, in the matter, marked: ECW/CCJ/APP/15/22 In Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) vs. Republic of Benin, the court also ordered the Francophone country to comply with its order to pay 20 million CFA to Adeyemo within three months and report back to the court with evidence of payment.
Counsel for the applicant (Adeyemo) includes Tosing Ojaomo, Aderemilekun Omojola Esq., Dr Janet Fashakin Esq., and Irene Aclombessi, who represented the Republic of Benin.
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Recall that Igboho, had earlier declared that President Bola Tinubu will not in anyway allow lawlessness that led to herders killing farmers under the immediate past administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Igboho warned herders against the thought of carrying out further attacks on farmers in the Southwest.
He made this assertion in reaction to a comment by the national president of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, who dismissed his recent quit notice to Fulani herders to vacate the Southwest.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that in October this year, Igboho had given Fulani herders seven days to vacate the Southwest.
However, Bodejo had condemned the ultimatum issued by Igboho in a recent interview.
Igboho, in his reaction, described Bodejo as a ‘mere attention seeker.’ He insisted that Nigeria’s Constitution does not support mindless killings of farmers, rape of their wives, and destruction of farmlands.