The Department of State Services
has released rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress in the February 2019 general elections, Mr. Omoyele Sowore.
His co-detainee, Adebayo Bakare,
was also freed.
They were freed hours after
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja had given the DSS
24-hour ultimatum to release the two men.
Their lead defence counsel, Mr.
Femi Falana (SAN), confirmed this development to our Correspondent on Thursday.
He said they were released about
7pm on Thursday.
“They were released about 30
minutes ago. They were released to one of our lawyers,” he said.
He also told our Correspondent
that the agency had paid the sum of N100,000 awarded against it by Justice Ojukwu
for making the court to adjourn till Friday for frivolous reasons on Thursday.
The two men, who are now being
prosecuted by the Federal Government on charges of treasonable felony, were
arrested in August over their call for ‘Revolution’ protest against what they
described as “bad governance.”
But the had DSS continued to hold
them in custody despite separate court orders ordering their release.
It came to a head on Thursday
when the judge, who frowned at the conduct of the DSS, issued a fresh order
directing the agency to release them within 24 hours.
Earlier in the day, a group of
half-naked women from Sowore’s birthplace in Kiribo, Ese-Odo Local Government
Area of Ondo State, had stormed the Federal High Court, Abuja, to protest the
continued illegal detention of their son by the DSS.
Most of the women, numbering
about 30, were decked in white wrappers and bra, but with no clothes covering
the rest of the upper parts of their bodies.
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