Home > Business > Agribusiness > DSS Rearrests Sowore

DSS Rearrests Sowore

The Department of State services (DSS) has rearrested 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 arrested the activist.

Staff of the court were said to have taken to their heels, and the judge was reportedly chased out of the court.

The secret police had kept Sowore in custody against court orders for his release before this recent arrest.

The current arrest is against a subsisting order. Sowore is facing charges of treasonable felony and cyber-stalking brought against him the government. He was arrested on August 3 ahead of a protest he was promoting.

Sowore is to be arraigned on fresh charges.

They were standing trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday in a case earlier brought against them by the Nigerian Government when DSS operatives stormed the place and disrupted proceedings, leaving to hours of standoff and tension around the place.

 

 

About Editor

Otunba Sayo Akintola is a 1992 graduate of Linguistics from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Financial Management and MBA from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. He started his 12-year sojourn in journalism at the Nigerian Tribune in 1993 as Business and Economy reporter. He rose through the ranks to become the Group Business Editor of the nation’s oldest surviving private national newspaper, the Nigerian Tribune. He set up World Street Journal magazine in 2018.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

x

Check Also

BREAKING: Court Nullifies APC Congresses To Elect Candidates For Kogi Guber Election

The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared the Ward and Local Government congresses of ...

London Court Trial: Trouble For Ekweremadu As Wife Denies Involvement In Search For Kidney Donor

Beatrice, the wife of embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied involvement in ...