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Attorney-General, Malami Denies Authorising Secret Police’s Raid On Sunday Igboho’s Residence

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Attorney-General, Malami Denies Authorising Secret Police’s Raid On Sunday Igboho’s Residence

The Authorized professional-Frequent of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has denied authorising the invasion of the Ibadan residence of the Yoruba self-acclaimed activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly referred to as Sunday Igboho, by the lads of the Division of State Suppliers (DSS).

The invasion of the Ibadan home of Igboho by the security firm had led to the lack of lifetime of two of us.

Igboho had on August 4 approached the Oyo State Extreme Courtroom in Ibadan, trying to find an order of the courtroom docket restraining the DSS and the AGF from arresting, intimidating, harassing and freezing his monetary establishment accounts.

He wants the similar order for his aides and guests who’ve been arrested and delivered to Abuja by the lads of the DSS, thus asking the court to declare the invasion of his residence on July 1 as illegal and infringement on his elementary human correct.

Nevertheless the AGF, in an affidavit deposed on August 18, 2021 by one Thomas Etah, who’s a civil servant of the Federal Ministry of Justice headquarters, and as a litigation officer, argued, “I’ve the consent and authority of the first respondent (Malami) and that of Maimuna Lami Shiru (Mrs), Simon Enock, Abdullahi Abubakar and Elodimuo Ekene, the counsel in chambers assigned to conduct the defence on behalf of the first respondent (Malami) to depose to this counter-affidavit.

“That the main points deposed to herein are from my very personal personal information and along with particulars from information geared up to me within the midst of preparing the case, that the first respondent denies paragraph 8(28), (29), (30) of the affidavit of Samuel Ojebode and states that reverse to the insinuation of the applicant to the influence, the first respondent, who is not a security officer as has been severally mentioned above, he did not participate throughout the price of the acts being complained of or received right here once more to Abuja and assumed the place of a determine or carried out any media trial,” Etah deposed.

Nevertheless whereas the listening to was adjourned till August 30, Justice Akintola maintained that an order restraining the AGF, DSS or each different security agency from arresting or harassing Igboho nonetheless subsists till the next adjournment when the substantive case could possibly be determined.