Activist, Sunday Igboho has been arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic by security operatives in the West African country.
According to his lawyer Yomi Alliyu (SAN), the Federal Government of Nigeria through INTERPOL got Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and his wife Ropo, who is a German citizen, arrested on Monday night at an airport in Benin Republic, one of Nigeria’s neighbouring countries in the West African sub-region. Igboho was arrested while he tried to catch a flight to Germany with his wife.
The senior advocate described the arrest of his client as shocking and urged the government of Germany, Benin Republic and the international community “to rise up and curb the impunity of the Nigerian Government by refusing any application for extradition of our client who already has application before the International Criminal Court duly acknowledged”.
The Federal Government of Nigeria had placed the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Customs Service on alert to stop Igboho from leaving the country.