Frontline advocate of Yoruba nation, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, is set to return to the country .
Igboho fled the country in 2021 after operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, stormed his residence in Ibadan.
Scores were killed while others were severely injured in the attack, about 13 others were arrested in the raid.
The DSS at the time had said it carried out the raid after intelligence reports revealed that Igboho allegedly stockpiled weapons in his house.
It, thereafter, launched a manhunt for Igboho who was subsequently arrested in neighbouring Cotonou, Benin Republic, while trying to travel to Germany.
However, addressing newsmen in Abuja on Friday, Igboho’s lawyer, Mr. Pelumi Olajengbesi, said the embattled Yoruba nation activist, who had since regained his freedom, would soon return to the country.
“Igboho is doing very well and he will soon be in Nigeria in a very ceremonial way. The arrangements are on,” Olajengbesi told newsmen.
He, however, lamented his inability to enforce a judgement that was delivered in favour of his client, a situation he said was made difficult by the fact that the consent of the Attorney-General of the Federation must first be secured before security agencies could pay judgement debts.
While calling for a review of that provision of the law, Olajengbesi, urged the Federal Government under President Bola Tinubu to have a rethink about people he described as “freedom fighters.”
The lawyer maintained that people like Igboho, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, as well as the embattled convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, deserved to be listened to by the government.
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