Fugitive and self-determination activist, Sunday Adeyemo, has said he will soon be returning to Nigeria to claim the N20 billion he is being owed by the Nigerian government.
Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who spoke in a video that went viral on Wednesday said, I am coming back to Ibadan; Im coming back home. So, Yorubas should not be afraid and nothing will happen; nobody can make the other person afraid.
Recall that in July 2021, Adeyemo, a campaigner for Yoruba self-determination, was declared wanted by Nigerias secret police after his house, located in Ibadan, was invaded by the SSS operatives, who claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump action guns and 5,000 rounds of ammunition and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.
The self-acclaimed activist, who fled the country to Benin Republic, said the weapons were not his and that the security operatives planted ammunition in his house to implicate him. Following the raid, Igboho sued the Federal Government and demanded damages.
Speaking further in the viral video, Adeyemo noted that his demand from the Federal Government was to allow the people of the South-West region to have their independence from Nigeria.
However, he added that the court had justified his struggle by clearing all charges and awarding him N20 billion to be paid by the Nigerian government over the unlawful invasion of his apartment by the SSS.
In September 2021, the Oyo State High Court declared the raid conducted by the SSS on the residence of Mr Adeyemi in Ibadan as illegal, saying that the action was arbitrary aggression and prejudices against the activist.
The presiding judge, Ladiran Akintola, immediately ordered SSS to pay N20 billion to Igboho as exemplary and aggravated damages.
