One of the Counsels to Sunday Igboho based in Cotonou, Ibrahim Salami has said the police in Benin Republic handcuffed the hands of the activist despite detaining him in a locked cell.
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Salami spoke on Saturday in a Facebook Live Interview with BBC News Yoruba monitored .
He said, “We are five lawyers handling his case. When we visited Sunday Adeyemo at the police station, he was not beaten but what they did that is alien to the law here is that they handcuffed him inside the police cell after locking the cell. This makes eating and movement within the cell difficult for him to the extent that someone has been helping him in this regard.
“Apart from being a lawyer, I am also a professor of law at a university here in Benin Republic. Part of what we teach our students is human rights. Human rights frown at the action of the police.
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“I called the attention of the police commander and the prosecutor to this but still nothing changed. At the moment, Sunday Igboho’s hands are in chains at the police station. This is not good at all.”
Salami also said the Nigerian Government’s representatives told the court that Igboho is a gunrunner who tried to divide Nigeria.
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The court ruled that Igboho be remanded in police custody till Monday, July 26, 2021 when sitting would resume in the French-speaking court.
Igboho was arrested along with his wife, Ropo at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou on Monday while they tried to catch a flight to Germany. Igboho was earlier declared wanted by the Department of State Services for allegedly stockpiling arms, an allegation he denied. The secret police had also raided his house, killed two of his associates and arrested about 12 of them.
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