The Department of State Services has complied with the order
of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja which directed it
to release the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, and his
co-accused, Olawale Bakare.
Sowore and Bakare were released on Thursday night, few hours
after the judge ordered that they should be released within 24 hours.
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Justice Ojukwu had on Thursday expressed great reservation
over the refusal of the DSS to release Sowore and Bakare.
Consequently, the court ordered the DSS to release Sowore
and Bakare within the next 24 hours and adjourned to Friday December 6 for
report of compliance of the Court’s directive.
Justice Ojukwu had signed the release of the bail of the
defenfants after they met the bail conditions.
However, the DSS had maintained that Sowore and Bakare would
not be released until their sureties appear before the agency for appropriate
profiling.
At the resumed hearing, counsel to the defenfants, Femi
Falana SAN, had complained to the court that its order as regards release of
documents and the defenfants who had been granted bail had not been complied
with by the prosecution.
Justice Ojukwu while wondering why a legitimate order of
court would not be obeyed, asked if the DSS had constituted itself as a
parrallel court to the main court.
Ruling on the request for adjournment by Sowore’s lawyer for
time to study the documents and videos tendered as evidence against Sowore,
Justice Ojukwu held that because the adjournment was created by the prosecution
she was inclined to award cost against the prosecution.
Justice Ojukwu subsequently awarded a cost of N100,000 against the Prosecution, stating that trial would only go on upon payment of the N100,000 fine.
Source: ThisDAy
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