RULAAC has expressed concern over the arrest and disappearance of Babatunde Oluajo and others by the Department of State Security (DSS) since Monday, August 5, 2024.
The Executive Director of RULAAC, Okechukwu Nwanguma said that his organization had credible information that Babatunde Oluajo a.k.a. Sankara, Michael Adaramoye a.k.a Michael Lenin, and about three others, at about 2 a.m. on Monday, August 5, 2024, were taken away by operatives of the DSS who invaded Sankara’s Abuja residence on the said day.
Nwanguma said: “To 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 at the time of their abduction.”
According to Nwanguma, the arrest of these men and subsequent of keeping them incommunicado amounted to abduction and enforced disappearance.
He further said: “It is illegal to arrest any citizen without informing them of their offence 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 a democratic country. RULAAC calls on the DSS to immediately release Sankara and others and to ensure that no harm comes to any of them.”
