The Department of State Services is concluding plans to secretly
arraign pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters,
Omoyele Sowore, next week on fresh charges.
Sowore has now been detained arbitrarily for 57 days by the
President Muhammadu Buhari government.
A source within the DSS told Guardian, “We are aware of the
court order but we are still keeping him to be arraigned next week
on charges that Nigerians will know of when he gets to court.”
The development is coming five days after Justice Taiwo Taiwo of
the Federal High Court in Abuja granted Sowore bail and ordered his
immediate release.
The DSS on Thursday feigned ignorance about the release order
and on Friday stopped the court’s bailif from delivering the order
for the second time to the security agency.
Sowore was arrested in Lagos on August 3, 2019 by the DSS for
calling on Nigerians to take to the streets in peaceful
demonstrations to condemn the poor state of leadership in the
country.
Despite calls for his release from across the world, the
government has failed to set him free, violating his fundamental
human rights in the process.
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