Sunday Igboho
By Our Reporter
That Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic is a stale news, what is perhaps news is the role played by former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai who is currently the Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic. Buratai insisted that Igboho should be arrested.
Before the Army Chief came on the scene, Igboho had initially escaped arrest at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic
NATIONAL WAVES learnt that Igboho and his wife, Ropo, at first, escaped arrest but when Buratai heard of his escape, he insisted that he should be fished out and arrested. The security operatives swung into action and used a travel agent to lure them back to the airport before he was eventually arrested around 8pm on Monday
“He (Igboho) was arrested in Cotonou on Monday night while he tried to travel. He was already at the airport with a passport. The immigration officers suspected the passport and so they stopped him. In the process, they discovered he was the one. He was able to escape in the course of discussion and we were grateful to God for that.
“But the travel agent called back saying the matter had been resolved. But on going back, he was arrested. He was trying to travel to Germany when he was apprehended.”
Sources informed NATIONAL WAVES that Buratai through the Nigerian Embassy in the West African country, sent a secret letter to the Benin government to be on the lookout for Igboho.
The letter was instrumental to the arrest of Igboho and his wife, Ropo, at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, the largest city in the French-speaking country.
Benin Republic is bordered by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso to the north-west, Niger Republic to the north-east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Nigeria to the east. Benin Republic shares a boundary with Oyo State in South-West Nigeria, where Igboho was based before the Nigerian Government through its Department of State Services raided his Soka residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on July 1, 2021 around 1am.
