The Department of State Services DSS has stated that paying the N20 billion damages granted against it by an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan to the Yoruba nation’s leader, Sunday Adeyemo (Sunday Igboho), will have a negative impact on the economy.
The Yoruba leader is said to be under extradition procedure to Nigeria.
These were stated in court documents made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.
The DSS had broken into Igboho’s residence in Ibadan, murdering two of his aides and arresting 12 others.
The 49-year-old agitator was proclaimed sought for allegedly amassing weapons to destabilize Nigeria.
Igboho was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic while trying to flee to Germany.
The Benin court on July 27, ordered that he should be remanded in a facility in the country.
Meanwhile, Igboho sued the Federal Government for the raid at the Ibadan High Court, which awarded N20bn damages against the secret police.
However, in an affidavit sworn to by the DSS titled, ‘Applicants affidavit in support of its motion on notice for a stay of execution of the judgment of this suit No/M/435/2021 and an injunction pending the determination of the appeal,’ an operative of the DSS, Johnson Oluwole, stated that Igboho was undergoing extradition procedure to Nigeria.
He stated, “That it is a fact that the applicant, Chief Sunday Igboho, has been declared a fugitive by the Nigeria Police Force sometimes in June 2021.
“That it is a fact that the applicant was arrested on the 19th of July 2021 and is currently in the custody of the Beninese security agents undergoing extradition procedure back to Nigeria.
“That it is fact that the applicant is under investigation by the security agents for a treasonable act that is inimical to the corporate existence of the country.
“That it is fact that one of the reliefs granted by this honorable court is that the respondents pay the plaintiff N20bn as exemplary damages.
“That it is a fact that withdrawing a whopping sum of N20bn from the country’s economy would adversely affect the smooth running of the country.”
Ada Peter






















