Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of
Nigeria and lawyer has narrated the build-up to Sowore and Bakare’s rearrest by
the DSS at a Federal High Court in Abuja, barely 24 hours after their release
from DSS custody.
Falana who is the lawyer to
activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare said: “This morning, the SSS lawyers
and the lawyers of the Attorney-General reported to the court that the order of
the court had been complied with and I confirmed because our clients were
released last night.
“As soon as the court adjourned
the matter to February next year, the SSS operatives pounced on the court,
disrupted proceeding and then attempted to arrest our clients even in the web
of the court, that was extremely embarrassing because it has never happened in
Nigeria where you enter a court to arrest anybody, even an alleged coup
plotter.
“The atmosphere was very rowdy,
but I insisted that the arrest could not be carried out within the precinct of
the court.
“He was going to be arrested
outside the premises but there was a crowd that resisted the arrest, but I
appealed to everybody and asked Sowore to jump into my car and so we drove to
the office of the SSS because they said he will just answer a few questions,
but now he is being detained.
“We are going to take steps under
the law by asking for his release again since they are claiming this is a fresh
arrest.
“Nobody has disclosed yet what
his charges are; he couldn’t have committed any other offence because he has
been detained for the past four months unless the SSS wants to tell the whole
world that he committed this fresh offence while in their custody,” he
stressed.
Mr. Sowore and Mr Bakare who were
released at about 7:15 pm on Thursday are facing seven counts bordering on
conspiracy to commit treasonable felony, money laundering and cybercrimes,
amongst others.
They were arrested on August 3,
days before a planned #RevolutionNow protest against “bad governance” in the
country.
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