{"id":78052,"date":"2021-01-30T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=78052"},"modified":"2021-01-30T01:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:57:11","slug":"you-cant-arrest-igboho-falana-tells-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/you-cant-arrest-igboho-falana-tells-police\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t arrest Igboho, Falana tells Police\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1690264815950943433\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has warned the Nigeria Police Force not to arrest popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI 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,\u201d Falana said Friday on a PUNCH Online interview programme,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Falana said \u201cthere is no way the police can choose who to arrest in this nature.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, \u201cAlmajiris have been deported, beggars have been deported, the poor and destitute have been deported and the government never raised any issue.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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, adding that he had spoken against persons who issued quit notices to non-indigenes in the past.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe government has failed the people but the people can mobilised to make the government alive to its responsibility of protecting lives and properties,\u201d he said, adding, &#8220;It has got to that stage when every community has to organised its security because we can no longer depend on the government.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Sunday Igboho cannot be arrested because others who gave quit notices in the past were not arrested. 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