The Department of State services
(DSS) has attempted to rearrest Omoyele Sowore at the federal high court in
Abuja.
On Thursday, the court ordered
the DSS to release Sowore within 24 hours. He was later released in the evening
of the same day.
But on Friday, DSS agents pulled
their guns in a show of force causing confusion in the court premises and made
an attempt to arrest the activist.
The DSS operatives also chased away the presiding judge,
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu while also brutalising a journalist with a popular
television station.
However, at the time of the
attempt to re-arrest him, police, journalists and others present in court threw
themselves on Sowore, thereby preventing the heavily armed security personnel
from picking him up.
“Sowore could be seen on the
floor inside the courtroom saying, “They have surrounded the place. We will
sleep here today.”
There is currently an ongoing standoff inside the court
premises as the DSS operatives are refusing to allow Sowore and his lawyers
come out of the place.
More to follow…
Watch video of the attempted arrest:
Watch video of the attempted arrest:
What a Republic!!!
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