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Sowore: Abuja Court Summons Justice Minister, DSS DG

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The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Yusuf Bichi and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, have been summoned to appear before an Abuja court over Omoyele Sowore’s continued detention by the DSS.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered  them to come and explain why Sowore is still being detained after he was granted bail by the court.

Justice Inyang Ekwo made the order in a ruling on an ex parte application filed on Sowore’s behalf by his lawyer, Mr. Marshal Abubakar.

Abubakar had, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/407/2019, urged the court to order the DSS boss and the AGF to produce Sowore in court “for an unconditional release” from custody, based on the bail already granted him by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.

The DSS and the AGF had arraigned Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, on charges of treasonable felony, before Justice Ojukwu.

But ruling on the application moved by Abubakar on Tuesday, Justice Ekwo said he needed to hear from the two defendants before taking a decision.

He adjourned the case until December 23 and directed the Deputy Chief Registrar of the court to serve hearing notices on the two defendants.

Sowore was rearrested violently by the operatives of the DSS at the Federal High Court in Abuja on December 6, barely 24 hours after he was released from custody that lasted over four months.

He has since been held in custody, with no fresh charges instituted against him.

His lead counsel, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), had earlier in a statement on Tuesday, urged the AGF, who said he had taken over the prosecution of the defendants from the DSS, to direct the agency to immediately release the Sahara Reporters  publisher from “illegal” detention.

There is no court’s detention order or an arrest warrant backing the rearrest and continued detention of Sowore, he said.

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