Adeyinka Shoyemi, a Nigerian whom is based in West London, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for inciting racial hatred and violence with unpleasant messages about Nigeria.
As reported by Evening Standard, messages posted by accounts named ‘Adeyinka Grandson’, were reviewed by a specialist group of officers in the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit.
During the review, it was discovered that the 45-year old came to the attention of counter-terror police for the first time in March 2019 after he was reported by members of the public for targeting certain ethnic groups in Nigeria.
Shoyemi’s posts, which had comments that encouraged attacks against particular ethnic groups, were in potential contravention of the law.
Shoyemi had targeted Igbos on his social media pages and other people that do not share the same ideology with him.
Also, he said Igbo and Fulani people are the cause of the problems in Yorubaland as they are killing the Yorubas and raping their children.
During the #EndSARS protest in October 2020, Shoyemi said most officials of the police unit were Fulanis and Igbos that used their positions to kill Yorubas.
He was first arrested at his home in August 2019, and his house was searched by officers. He was initially charged with six counts of inciting racial hatred.
He was released on bail with a condition that he would not post any more social media posts which were threatening, abusive or insulting to any ethnic groups but he flouted his bail conditions.
He was arrested again with two more inciting racial hatred charges added.
Shoyemi was recently sentenced to a four-and-a-half-year jail term and was found guilty of eight counts of inciting racial hatred after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.
