BY QUADRI SALIU
Nigeria Department of State Services who could not charge the Fulani herdsmen killings, kidnapping and raping people across the country on terrorism has charged the two remaining detained aides to Sunday Igboho’s with terrorism.
The DSS filed the charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja after over two months since the secret police arrested and detained the two aides of Sunday Igboho.
It filed five terrorism charges against Noah Oyetunji and Amudat Babatundecharges through its lawyer S.M. Bello dated August 31, 2021.
In suit no FHC/ABJ/CR/305/2021, the DSS alleged that Oyetunji was in possession of firearms for terrorism-related activities while Babatunde promoted terroristic acts through her Facebook account.
But the Fulani herdsmen who move freely from village to village, city to city and state to state with AK47 and AK49 have never been charged for once with terrorism as the government branded them as bandits.
Meanwhile, the legal counsel to Igboho’s aides, Pelumi Olajengbesi said the alleged charges were baseless, vexatious, shameful and without limbs
The twelve aides of Sunday Igboho who were arrested and detained since Jult 1 got the court mandate for bail yet the DSS never obeyed the court injunction,
After several days intervals, Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on August 4, 2021, granted bail to the 12 detainees, the DSS had released on ten, detaining two.
This was after the detainees had met their bail conditions, including the provision of 24 sureties, but the DSS lawyer, Idowu Awo, had kicked against the bail granted by Justice Egwuatu to four of them, claiming that they were heavily involved in the alleged offence of arms stockpiling and other criminal activities of their boss, Igboho.