Yoruba Voice of Liberation

).  The Yoruba Voice of Liberation in audit and assessment of the situation in Nigeria state, impact on citizens including on issues close to heart of the Yorubas concluded that the challenges are not administration specific but are embedded in the country’s formative...

12 August 2023 STATEMENT OF YORUBA VOICE OF LIBERATION ON NIGERIA, CURRENT NIGER GOVERNMENT AND LOOMING WAR ON THE COAST OF WEST AFRICA The meeting of the Yoruba Voice of Liberation (YVL) of 12 August 2023 concluded with the following outcomes a) recognition of...

23 July 2021
BENIN EXERCISING DUTY ABSTAINING EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS- ATTACK ON RESIDENCE OF CHIEF SUNDAY ADEYEMO IS AN ACT OF STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM
In a display of state sponsored terrorism that shocked the world, on Thursday 1 July, 2021 the Nigerian Department of State Security invaded the residence of Chief Sunday Adeyemo at around 1am in the morning, hacking and shooting indiscriminately, resulting in death of two people.

The attack was in reaction to the actions of Chief Sunday Adeyemo in leading peaceful campaign for self determination by Yoruba people of South West Nigeria. Self determination agitation by Yorubas is in response to the killings, displacement and suppression of Yoruba people by the Fulanis, aided by the Fulani led government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Self determination is central to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 43, adopted by the General Assembly and the campaign led by Chief Sunday Adeyemo is wholly legal and constitutional. During the invasion of Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s house, the bodies of the dead were taken away to hide evidence, additionally several others were unlawfully arrested and have since been in incarceration with the government in Abuja.

This is one of many instances and is in line with the agenda of terror by President Muhammadu Buhari against the Indigenous Nationalities in Nigeria, including as he President Muhammadu Buhari implied and expressed. In June 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari made categorical statement that “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand”. This statement is in direct refence to the killings of over 3 million Igbos during the Nigerian civil war of 1967. The concept in this statement, the bloodthirstiness and savagery, savoring of genocide and its widespread impact resulted in it been deleted by twitter authorities. The attempted assassination of Chief Sunday Adeyemo is in driving into the consciousness of all what he President Muhammad Buhari is capable of doing.

In worrying comparison to malicious and unadulterated violence dealt Chief Sunday Adeyemo, and other private citizens, the same government of President Muhammadu Buhari openly provide criminals kidnapping and killing Nigerians with billions of naira, radio station and other things to facilitate their ethnic cleansing activities.

In response to Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s call to that the Fulani hegemony must stop killings of ethnic nationalities, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari deployed the Department Of State Services on assassination assignment to Chief Adeyemo. In direct indictment of the President, lawmaker Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi Adetunmbi stated on Wednesday 21 July 2021 the government of Muhammadu Buhari did not follow due process in the case of invasion of the house of Chief Sunday Adeyemo. It was asserted that the operation was covert and carried out without the knowledge of the governor, the elected Chief Security Officer of the state.

On escaping the attempt on his life, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fleeing from persecution made it to Republic of Benin. Article 14 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948, established that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.The Right to Asylum defines that

1) No State Party shall expel, return (“refouler”), surrender or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of being subjected to enforced disappearance.

2) For the purpose of determining whether there are such grounds, the competent authorities shall take into account all relevant considerations, including, where applicable, the existence in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights or of serious violations of international humanitarian law.

The constitutions of Benin directly cite the Declaration:

“Reaffirm our attachment to the principles of democracy and human rights as they have been defined by the Charter of the United Nations of 1945 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted in 1981 by the Organization of African Unity and ratified by Bénin on January 20, 1986 and whose provisions make up an integral part of this present Constitution and of Béninese law and have a value superior to the internal law”

Home and abroad, President Muhammadu Buhari and his government is to many the face of terror!

We continue to call on the Republic of Benin to stand up to its international obligation and responsibilities by refusing to hand over to the Nigerian government Chief Sunday Adeyemo.

Ayo Faleti Ademola Adekunle (PhD, LLM)
President Secretary General
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