Sowore: CACOL reacts as DSS ‘refuses’ to release Publisher
who had gathered on the premises of the Department of State Services, DSS, to demand the release of Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement and Olawale Bakare.Last Wednesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja,
However, reacting, a statement signed by CACOL’s Coordinator, Media and Publications, Adegboyega Otunuga, and forwarded to DAILY POST, expressed disappointment over Sowore’s continued detention. The statement reads in part, “The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, received the news on the repression and teargassing of some Nigerians who were at the State Security Service headquarters to receive their leader, Mr. Sowore Omoyele, who has been in DSS custody for over three months running now over an allegation that borders on treasonable felony and ‘cyber stalking’.
“It is therefore tantamount to adding salt to a wound, where such wrongfully incarcerated was given the benefits of bail by a judge of competent court of jurisdiction which an agency of government is willfully and recklessly refusing to obey by any means possible, contrary to the rule of law and known tenets of democratic order.
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