A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Department of
State Services (DSS) to pay the sum of N2 million as general damages to Omoyele
Sowore, an activist, over the unlawful seizure of his phone in 2019.
The DSS arrested Sowore on August 2, 2019. Despite being
granted bail by two courts, the DSS failed to release the activist.
He was, however, eventually released on December 24, 2019.
Sowore then instituted a suit against the secret service to
compel the agency to return his seized phones.
Delivering judgment in the suit on Wednesday, Anwuli
Chiekere, presiding judge, held that the suit is not an abuse of court process
as claimed by the respondent’s counsel.
Consequently, she ordered that the phones and money seized
from Sowore in August 2019 should be returned to him and N2 million paid to him
as damages.
She also ordered the DSS to apologise to the plaintiff
publicly in two national dailies.
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