Cour D’Appel De Cotonou in Benin Republic, has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, should be transferred to another detention facility.
The court on Monday, July 26, also denied Igboho bail but granted him access to medical care after hours of sitting which lasted till late at night.
This is after the activist’s lawyers complained that his fundamental human rights were being abused.
Journalists and supporters of the agitator were not allowed into the court .
After the hearing, the court ordered that Igboho remain in custody pending investigations. However, the court did not reveal the new detention facility he will be transferred to.
Before Monday’s sitting, Igboho was detained at Brigade Criminelle facility.
Counsels to Igboho had claimed after Thursday’s hearing, that prosecutors claimed Igboho was on a watch list for alleged trafficking in arms, inciting violence that could result in social disturbance and causing disunity in Nigeria.
Recall that Igboho and his wife were arrested on Monday, July 19, 2021, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Republic of Benin on their way to Germany.
At their arraignment on Thursday, July 22, the Beninese court adjourned the case till Monday, July 26 after Igboho’s five lawyers failed to convince the prosecutor that he had no case to answer.
His wife, Ropo was thereafter, released, while her husband remained in detention.
