Sunday Igboho Transferred To New Detention Facility In Benin Republic

Cour D’Appel De Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, should be transferred to another detention facility.

This is after the activist’s lawyers complained that his fundamental human rights were being abused.

Glamtush had reported that Igboho had a leg chain and hand-cuff on him.

But Ilana Omo Oodua in a statement on Monday morning said the leg chain and hand-cuff were later removed from him.

According to Ibrahim Salami, one of the Cotonou, Benin Republic-based lawyers of Sunday Igboho, the activist needed support to eat and use the toilet because of the hand-cuff.

Before the new order, Igboho was detained at Brigade Criminelle facility.

Though tbe new detention facility is yet to be disclosed, our correspondent gathered that the activist would possibly be moved to Cotonou Civil Prison.

The activist was returned to cell after a 13-hour hearing, which ended around 11:20 pm on Monday.

Journalists and Igboho’s supporters who thronged the court in their large numbers were denied access.

Details of the judgment are sketchy as of the time of filing this report.

Recall that Igboho and his wife were arrested on Monday, July 19, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, the Republic of Benin on their way to Germany

When they were arraigned last Thursday, the Beninese court adjourned the case till Monday (today) after Igboho’s five lawyers failed to convince the prosecutor that he had no case to answer.

The Beninese authorities released Ropo – the agitator’s wife, while the 48-year-old activist was returned to police custody.