Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has been released from detention in Benin Republic.
But Igboho has not been freed to leave the country, his lawyer Yomi Aliyyu (SAN) said on Monday.
Aliyyu said Igboho was released to his medical doctors with the agreement that he would not leave Cotonou for any reason.
“I am to inform you that Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho Oosa, has been released from prison to his medical practitioners under the agreement that he should not leave the medical centre or Cotonou for any reason,” Punch quoted Aliyyu to have said.
“Praises should be given to two prominent Yoruba personalities to wit; Prof Wale Adeniran and Prof (Banji) Akintoye, for this turnaround in our client’s matter.”
Igboho, 49, might not return to Nigeria till May 2023 after the expiration of the regime President Muhammadu Buhari, reports say.
The Department of State Services raided Igboho’s Ibadan residence on July 1, 2021, killed two of his aides and arrested 12 others, who were later released after spending months in detention at the secret police’s headquarters in Abuja.
Declared wanted by the DSS for allegedly stockpiling arms to destabilise Nigeria, an allegation he denied, Igboho escaped to the neighbouring Benin Republic in July 2021
However, luck ran out on him when he was arrested by Interpol around 8pm on July 19, 2021, at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, when he tried to board a Germany-bound aircraft alongside his wife, Ropo.
He was remanded in a prison in Cotonou and is facing trial for immigration-related offences, among others.
