The rabid Igbo Hater, Adeyinka Grandson, President of the secessionist Yoruba group, Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF), who was just released from prison for his anti-Igbo tirades, has alleged that the United Kingdom (UK) authorities tried to kill him.
He also called for the establishment of Yoruba Police Service in Lagos.
Adeyinka, in a statement on Tuesday, hours after he was released from a UK prison, claimed that he was a British Political Prisoner.
According to him: “I was a British Political Prisoner for two years, three months and ten days and my conviction was malicious, an assault on free speech and a stain on the English judiciary.”
Adeyinka was jailed for four and a half years by a Southwark Crown Court in Central London, UK in April 2022 over his Social Media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria, especially the Igbos and Hausa-Fulanis.
Grandson, also known as Adeyinka Shoyemi, a UK-based Nigerian of Yoruba descent, was known for his social media attacks on people of Igbo extraction as well as criticism of the Hausa-Fulani.
He was first arrested by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command and the Metropolitan Police under the approval of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London in August 2019.
Mr Shoyemi, 45, of Powis Terrace in Notting Hill, first came to the attention of counter-terror police in March 2019 after members of the public tipped them off about the posts targeting particular ethnic groups in Nigeria.
The messages, posted by accounts under the name ‘Adeyinka Grandson,’ were assessed by a specialist group of officers in the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) wherein they found that the posts, which had commentary encouraging attacks against certain ethnic groups, in potential breach of the law. They then launched a probe.
He was first arrested at his home address in August 2019, with officers searching three properties linked to him and seizing various digital devices.
Mr Shoyemi was initially charged with six counts of inciting racial hatred and he was released on bail with a condition not to post any more Social Media posts which were threatening, abusive or insulting to any ethnic groups.
But he flouted his bail conditions and was rearrested.
He was found guilty on November 30 of eight counts of inciting racial hatred after a trial at Southwark Crown Court
But in a statement on Tuesday, the Yoruba Supremacist leader alleged that he was infected with coronavirus and was served with poisoned food by prison authorities who tried to kill him over his political views and constant attacks on Igbo and Fulani in Nigeria.
According to him: “Whilst in prison, they infected me with coronavirus and poisoned my food in order to kill me. They are doing all these because of my political views that are critical of the Ibo and the Fulani’s immigrants in Nigeria, whom I have accused on social media of being the proxies of the English Establishment in the suppression and subjugation of the Yoruba in Nigeria.
“There is, therefore, a significant risk to the lives, liberty and physical safety of my children and I in England from the MI5/MI6 because of my political belief. The intervention of the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, in my case, is therefore, imperative to bring my children and I back home to Yorubaland from England.”
The secessionist leader, who also alleged that the UK court denied him the right to tender evidence to defend himself against the allegation of terrorism made against him by his ex-wife, stated: “I was not permitted by the Judge to use my witnesses, the documents that I had available, or to mention to the jury the involvement and motives of my ex-wife for reporting my political activism on Social Media to the Police as terrorism and racial hatred offences over the custody matter of our children, which made my conviction unsafe.”
“I wish to see the Yoruba Police Service in Lagos be given the power to stop and search the English in Lagos and discriminate against them for being white because the English Metropolitan Police Service in London have always stopped and searched the Yoruba in London and discriminated against them for being black.”
Calls for Yoruba Police Service in Lagos
The rabid Igbo Hater, Adeyinka Grandson, President of the secessionist Yoruba group, Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF), who was just released from prison for his anti-Igbo tirades, has alleged that the United Kingdom (UK) authorities tried to kill him.
Adeyinka, in a statement on Tuesday, hours after he was released from a UK prison, claimed that he was a British Political Prisoner.
According to him: “I was a British Political Prisoner for two years, three months and ten days and my conviction was malicious, an assault on free speech and a stain on the English judiciary.”
Adeyinka was jailed for four and a half years by a Southwark Crown Court in Central London, UK in April 2022 over his Social Media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria, especially the Igbos and Hausa-Fulanis.
Grandson, also known as Adeyinka Shoyemi, a UK-based Nigerian of Yoruba descent, was known for his social media attacks on people of Igbo extraction as well as criticism of the Hausa-Fulani.
He was first arrested by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command and the Metropolitan Police under the approval of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London in August 2019.
Mr Shoyemi, 45, of Powis Terrace in Notting Hill, first came to the attention of counter-terror police in March 2019 after members of the public tipped them off about the posts targeting particular ethnic groups in Nigeria.
The messages, posted by accounts under the name ‘Adeyinka Grandson,’ were assessed by a specialist group of officers in the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) wherein they found that the posts, which had commentary encouraging attacks against certain ethnic groups, in potential breach of the law. They then launched a probe.
He was first arrested at his home address in August 2019, with officers searching three properties linked to him and seizing various digital devices.
Mr Shoyemi was initially charged with six counts of inciting racial hatred and he was released on bail with a condition not to post any more Social Media posts which were threatening, abusive or insulting to any ethnic groups.
But he flouted his bail conditions and was rearrested.
He was found guilty on November 30 of eight counts of inciting racial hatred after a trial at Southwark Crown Court
But in a statement on Tuesday, the Yoruba Supremacist leader alleged that he was infected with coronavirus and was served with poisoned food by prison authorities who tried to kill him over his political views and constant attacks on Igbo and Fulani in Nigeria.
According to him: “Whilst in prison, they infected me with coronavirus and poisoned my food in order to kill me. They are doing all these because of my political views that are critical of the Ibo and the Fulani’s immigrants in Nigeria, whom I have accused on social media of being the proxies of the English Establishment in the suppression and subjugation of the Yoruba in Nigeria.
“There is, therefore, a significant risk to the lives, liberty and physical safety of my children and I in England from the MI5/MI6 because of my political belief. The intervention of the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, in my case, is therefore, imperative to bring my children and I back home to Yorubaland from England.”
The secessionist leader, who also alleged that the UK court denied him the right to tender evidence to defend himself against the allegation of terrorism made against him by his ex-wife, stated: “I was not permitted by the Judge to use my witnesses, the documents that I had available, or to mention to the jury the involvement and motives of my ex-wife for reporting my political activism on Social Media to the Police as terrorism and racial hatred offences over the custody matter of our children, which made my conviction unsafe.”
“I wish to see the Yoruba Police Service in Lagos be given the power to stop and search the English in Lagos and discriminate against them for being white because the English Metropolitan Police Service in London have always stopped and searched the Yoruba in London and discriminated against them for being black.”