Publisher of SaharsReporters, an online medium, Omoyele Sowore has regained freedom as the Department of State Services (DSS) released him today, December 5 from detention. He has been in the DSS detention since August 3.Report this evening, December 5, by TheCable, another online medium quoted DSS source as having confirmed the release of the agitator for a revolution in the country, even as the medium also said that one of the Omoyele lawyers, Marshall Abubakar, equally confirmed the development.
“He has been released. I am with him as we speak,” he told TheCable over the phone, adding that Olawale Bakare, Sowore’s co-defendant, had also been set free.
The federal government had come under intense pressure over the detention of the activists despite fulfilling the conditions of the bail granted to them.
Earlier in the day during the trial of the duo at a federal high court in Abuja on “treasonable felony”, Ijeoma Ojukwu, the presiding judge, gave the secret police a 24-hour ultimatum to release them.
The judge said that after she signed the warrants for the release of the defendants from custody, and same was served on the defendants, the DSS had no justifiable reason to continue to hold them in custody.
The prosecuting counsel, Hassan Liman (SAN), had insisted that the DSS had not obeyed the court order for their release, adding that the DSS had no power to constitute itself into a parallel court.
The judge also awarded the cost of N100,000 against the prosecution to be paid to the defendants for foisting “frivolous adjournment” on the court.
She ordered that the cost must be paid before the next hearing which is Friday.
