The Department of State Service on Saturday failed to release
the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, and
Olawale Bakare, despite the agency’s admission late on Friday that
it had been served with the Abuja Division of the Federal High
Court’s warrants for the release of the two men from custody.
Reacting to the development on Saturday, the Executive Secretary
of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Tony Ojukwu, said in a
statement that such conduct of disobedience to court order erodes
the confidence of the people in government and the judiciary.
He stated, “Many cases have been reported to the commission
about investigating police officers and state security officers
deliberately refusing or delaying to verify bail conditions
following court orders just to punish suspects unduly for reasons
that are not constitutional.
“The constitution guarantees the innocence of every citizen of
Nigeria until proven guilty by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
“A situation where the order of courts are continuously
disobeyed by security agents makes such security agents judges onto
themselves and such situation does not augur well for our democracy
based on separation of powers and rule of law.
“It makes the law uncertain at any point in time and leads to
loss of confidence of the people in government and state
institutions of which the judiciary is one.
“A situation like this can also lead to self-help thereby
creating more problems for law enforcement agents and threaten the
precarious situation of state responsibility to respect, protect
and fulfill human rights in the country.”
Late on Friday, the DSS through its spokesperson, Peter Ifunaya,
had blamed the non-release of Sowore and Bakare on the alleged
failure of their lawyers to take their delivery of Friday.
In reaction, the defence lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), faulted
the DSS’ claim.
Falana said lawyers in the defence team waited in vain for over
four hours at the DSS headquarters in Abuja to receive the two men
who have been held by the agency for close to 100 days.
On Saturday a lawyer in the defence team, Mr. Marshal Abubakar,
and a group of other lawyers, activists, and supporters of Sowore
and Bakare, arrived at the DSS headquarters at 8am to receive
them.
They had to leave the place at 1pm when it was clear that the
agency was not ready to release them.
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