{"id":109565,"date":"2023-12-06T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109565"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:01:34","slug":"alleged-rights-violation-court-orders-benin-republic-to-pay-igboho-20m-cfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/alleged-rights-violation-court-orders-benin-republic-to-pay-igboho-20m-cfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Rights Violation: Court Orders Benin Republic To Pay Igboho 20m CFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A three Member Panel of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court of justice has ordered the Government of the Republic of Benin to pay Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Igboho, 20 million CFA for unlawful detention.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered that the money should be paid within three months.<\/p>\n<p>Igboho had on February 10, filed an application before the court challenging his arrest and detention in the French-speaking country.<\/p>\n<p>The ECOWAS court also directed the country to comply with its order and revert to the court with evidence of payment.<\/p>\n<p>Igboho was arrested alongside his wife, Ropo, in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and detained at the request of the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p>The Yoruba Nation agitator had fled Nigeria after the Department of State Services raided his residence in Ibadan, Oyo state on July 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three Member Panel of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court of justice has ordered the Government of the Republic of Benin to pay Mr Sunday Adeyemo,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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