\n\nIn yet another ridiculous twist, the Department of State Services on Tuesday said that it was yet to release pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from its detention facility in Abuja because it doesn’t want him to get knocked down by a vehicle on his way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spokesperson for the agency, Peter Afunanya, also told journalists in Abuja on Tuesday that Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), was yet to come fetch him from their facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afunanya said, “We cannot just release Sowore and ask him to go because he may be knocked down by a vehicle at the gate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afunanya noted that Falana had not been to the headquarters of the service since the activist was granted bail, a claim the popular rights lawyer vehemently rejects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afunanya claimed that the DSS was following administrative procedures by asking the sureties to come forward for proper documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said, “We respect rules and orders of the court and there was never a time the Director-General said he would not release Sowore.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The secret police continues to hold on to Sowore despite two court orders directing it to release him after meeting bail conditions on both occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says Yusuf Bichi, director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), has stopped taking his calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI confirm that I have an official relationship with the DG of SSS. But since the commencement of the case of Sowore and Bakare the DG has refused to pick my calls while I have since become a persona non grata in the office of the SSS,\u201d Falana said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sowore was arrested in Lagos on August 3, 2019 for calling on Nigerians to take to the streets in peaceful demonstrations to demand a better country from President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In yet another ridiculous twist, the Department of State Services on Tuesday said that it was yet to release pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from its detention facility in Abuja because it doesn’t want him to get knocked down by a vehicle on his way out. Spokesperson for the agency, Peter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,14,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n