Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has opened up on how Beninoise Lawyers failed to stop his detention in the country.
Igboho, who was arrested in July while trying to flee Nigeria for Germany with his wife, Ropo.
He has sensationally revealed that some of his lawyers in Benin received up to 5 million naira and they could not stop the court from detaining him, according to a report on Daily Post.
Igboho told one of his supporters on phone that he walked out on one of his lawyers, Ibrahim David Salami.
Igboho said: “Lawyer Salami came to prison to see me, but he kept me waiting, attending to some other people for more than 15 minutes. I called on him, ‘Lawyer, I’m waiting, I’m hungry. I want to go and eat’.
“But he replied me saying, ‘will you be going then’ and I walked away. I don’t lie. He was here to see me, not someone else. He should have told those ones that he wanted to see his client. I am not a kid. I will be 50 in October.”
“If lawyers don’t want to represent me in court anymore, no problem. It is God who knows how I got here. He will set me free. Are those lawyers God?
“Lawyers that could not tell the judge not to take me to prison, despite how many they were. They were up to 10. In their presence, the judge ordered my detention in prison. Are those ones lawyers?
“Those who could not remove handcuffs from my hands until Falola came to do so. Are they lawyers? And they collected huge amount of money. Five million, four million, three million (Naira), that was how they were paid; yet they couldn’t remove handcuffs from my hands. I don’t fear any lawyer or anybody. Anything they want to do to me, I’m ready.
