Sowore of
Sahara Reporters, AAC Presidential
Sowore of
Sahara Reporters, AAC Presidential Candidate
Sowore Won’t be Released to Miscreants–DSS
•Says he is more secured in their custody
The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that the
Convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, cannot be released to
miscreants and protesters.
The Director of Public Relations, DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya,
stated this on Tuesday during a press conference at the DSS
Headquarters, Abuja.
Afunanya noted that they are saving Sowore from harm, as the
Service cannot “simply drop him at the gate and tell him to
go”.
“Is it right to bring Sowore at the gate and tell him to go
without documentation and hand him over to his sureties”, he
asked.
Speaking further, the DSS Spokesperson said that Sowore’s
sureties including his lawyer, Femi Falana, have refused to come
for documentations before he could be officially released and
handed over to them.
He said that rather than responsible sureties to come forward,
what DSS was faced with were media and social media profiling and
“cheap blackmail by protesters”.
He said: “If Sowore has been granted bail, do we bring him ay
the gate and say go. What of if he is knocked down by a vehicle?
Those who should come to take Sowore for documentations, document
properly and take responsibility that Sowore be released has not
come.
“Rather what we have are people protesting. So should we have
released Sowore to a mob? Our demands for sureties to come forward
is that if someone has stood in for Sowore, why can’t he come
forward to be properly documented. We all know what happened
concerning Nnamdi Kanu when someone stood in sureties for him.”
Afunanya further insisted that the Service is following due
process and global best practices, adding that “it is not out of
place that we are insisting that the administrative procedures be
followed”.
According to him, DSS is also “protecting Sowore from harm by
not just dropping him at the gate.
“We cannot release him to placard carrying people, warmongers
and protesters. We have remained calm in the face of
provocations.”
On Falana, he said he has neither visited nor called the DSS
concerning Sowore’s release.
“The records are straight”, he said, “Falana has not been here
since the bail was perfected. Falana has not come to this office
since this started. This is surprising because Falana is a friend
of the Director General but he has neither called nor seen
him”.