RULAAC calls on DSS to release Babatunde Oluajo, others from unlawful detentions

Stanley Ihedigbo

One of the leading Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC), has called on Department of Security Service (DSS), to release, Babatunde Oluajo, and others from their custody immediately.

According to the group, Executive Director, Com. Okechukwu Nwanguma, they have credible information that Babatunde Oluajo (a.k.a. Sankara), Michael Adaramoye (a.k.a Michael Lenin), and about 3 others were, at about 2 a.m. on Monday, August 5, 2024, taken away by operatives of the agency, who invaded Sankara’s Abuja residence on the said day.

Till date efforts by their lawyers, comrades, and relatives to locate their whereabouts have yielded no results as the DSS claim the same citizens they took away are not in their custody, nor have they revealed where they took them to.

There are serious concerns about the physical and psychological integrity of the disappeared citizens, some of whom were not in good health as at the time of their abduction.

This action amounts to abduction and enforced disappearance.

It it illegal to arrest any citizen without informing them of their offense or other reasons for their arrest. Arresting authorities have the legal obligation to inform relatives of persons they arrest about such arrest and to release them within the legally stipulated duration for lawful detention or otherwise produce them before a court of jurisdiction

The arrest and disappearance of Sankara and others are unlawful, condemnable, and unjustifiable in democratic country.