BREAKING: Court gives DSS 24 hours to release Sowore, Bakare

Tijani Hassan A.
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Omoyele Sowore, former Presidential aspiration

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday 5 December, 2019, gave the Department of State Service, DSS  24 hours ultimatum to release the Publisher of Online News Media, Sahara Reporters, and former Presidential aspirant in the 2019 General elections Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare being held in detention.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order at the scheduled commencement of the defendants' trial on charges of treasonable felony against them by the Federal government. The judge noted after she signed the warrants for the release of the defendants from custody, and same was served on the defendants, and the DSS had no justifiable reason to continue to hold them in custody .
The prosecuting counsel, Hassan Liman (SAN), had insisted that the DSS had not obeyed the court order for their release because the DSS had no power to constitute itself into a parallel court.
The judge adjourned the matter till Friday, 6 December, 2019, to check the compliance with the 24 hours ultimatum issued to the DSS. She blamed the adjournment of trial on the prosecution which she said failed to comply with her  of November 6, 2019, directing them to serve some documents on the defence team led by Mr. Femi Falana (SAN).
The judge also awarded the cost of ₦100, 000 against the prosecution to be paid to the defendants for foisting “frivolous adjournment ” on the court . She ordered that the cost must be paid before the next hearing which is Friday.
But despite the Thursday’s court order for the release of the defendants, it was observed that operatives of the DSS returned Sowore and Bakare to custody at the end of the proceedings.
"It can be recalled that Sowore has been in DSS custody since August following the demonstration tagged 'Revolution Now' he organised calling on Nigerians to demand for better means of livelihood from the Federal government"
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