JUST IN: See How Femi Falana Dares IGP Over Sunday Igboho

“You can’t arrest Igboho if you spared others who issued quit notices,” Femi Falana has dared IGP.

A Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Saturday warned the Nigeria Police Force not to arrest popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho.

The Presidency had said the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, ordered the arrest of Igboho for giving Fulani herdsmen accused of perpetrating sundry crimes in Oyo State an ultimatum to exit the state.

At the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum, Igangan residents in the Ibarapa area of the state, emboldened by Igboho’s presence, had ejected the Seriki Fulani and his herders out of the rustic town.

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Falana on Friday said: “I urge the police not to venture to arrest Mr Sunday Igboho because in this same country, when others issued quit notices to other nationalities in the past, they were not arrested.” 

Though Falana said “there is no way the police can choose who to arrest in this nature.”

According to him, “Almajiris have been deported, beggars have been deported, the poor and destitute have been deported and the government never raised any issue,” Falana said on a PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable.

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Falana, who had earlier said Igboho had no right to issue the vacation order to the herdsmen, said his position on such matter has been consistent, also that he had spoken against persons who issued quit notice to non-indigenes in the past.

The rights lawyer said he does not support jungle justice but the citizens must not take laws into their hands.

His words: “The government has failed the people but the people can mobilised to make the government alive to its responsibility of protecting lives and properties.”