Half-n*ked women from Sowore’s village storm Abuja court – TheNigerialawyer

A group of half-naked women from the birthplace of Mr. Omoyele
Sowore, in Kiribo, Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on
Thursday stormed the Federal High Court in Abuja to protest the
continued illegal detention of their son by the Department of State
Service.

Most of the women numbering about 30 were decked in white
wrappers and bra but with no clothes covering the rest of the upper
parts of their bodies.

Sowore and his co-detainee, Adebayo Bakare, were produced in
court on Thursday, with the judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, ordering
the DSS to release them from the illegal detention within 24
hours.

Their trial on charges of treasonable felony was scheduled to
commence on Thursday but the court had to adjourn till Friday due
for report of compliance with the fresh order for the defendants’
release.

The protesting women who arrived in the court environment after
the proceedings started on Thursday, were not allowed entry into
the court premises.

But they stayed by the gate brandishing their placards with
various inscriptions calling for Sowore’s release and only departed
long after the proceedings had ended and Sowore with his
co-detainee returned to custody by the DSS operatives.

In their Apoi dialect the women, many of them with grey hair,
described themselves as beneficiaries of Sowore philanthropic
gestures and appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release
their son from custody.