Omoyele Sowore, converner of
RevolutionNow Movement, and Adebayo Bakare, his co-defendant, have described
the application by federal government to transfer them from the custody of the
Department of State Service (DSS) to prison, as “frivolous”.
The duo, who were arrested in early
August, have been in DSS custody despite court orders on their release.
The federal government had
charged Sowore with treasonable felony, “insulting” President Muhammadu Buhari
and money laundering.
On Tuesday, Femi Falana, Sowore’s
lawyer, said the fresh application filed by Hassan Liman, DSS counsel, before
Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge presiding over Sowore’s trial at the federal high
court, Abuja, was intended to frustrate the court’s order for the release of
his client.
Falana argued that the application
for their transfer from the DSS custody to prison, showed that there was no
genuine intention to prosecute them.
“The application was filed by the
complainant/applicant to frustrate the execution of the order of release of the
1st and 2nd defendants/objectors from the custody of the State Security Service
made by this honourable court on November 6, 2019,” he said in a preliminary
objection filed on behalf of the defendants.
“There is no genuine intention to
prosecute the 1st and 2nd defendants by the complainant/applicant as the
statement of witnesses this honourable court ordered to be availed the defence
team is yet to be issued and served.
“The grounds upon which the
complainant’s/applicant’s application is hinged are frivolous, vexatious,
contemptuous, manifestly unarguable and unknown to law.”
The court had earlier issued a
warning to Yusuf Bichi, director-general of DSS, that he could be sent to
prison over the refusal of the agency to comply with the order to release
Sowore.
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