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.
Femi Falana, Senior Advocate
of Nigeria and lawyer has narrated the build-up to Sowore and Bakare’s re-arrest
by the DSS at a Federal High Court in Abuja, barely 24 hours after their
release from DSS custody.
“As soon as the court
adjourned the matter till 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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