Court Orders Sowore’s Release With Immediate Effect

Federal High Court has ordered the release of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore

The court sitting in Abuja ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to release Human Rights Activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters from its custody after being detained for 52 days without bail.

Presiding judge ,Justice Taiwo Taiwo ordered the release on the grounds that there is no order still in court on the condition that he must deposit all travel documents within 48 hours of the ruling.

Justice Taiwa also ordered that Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana, must produce him whenever the court needs him.

Earlier, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), had urged the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to enter a nolle prosequi to terminate the charges filed against the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, and Olawale Bakare.

In a letter by the group’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oludare, SERAP urged the AGF to save the nations judiciary from further embarrassment and disrespect by dropping the charges which centre on insulting President Muhammadu Buhari because it would further make a mockery of the Nigerian criminal justice system.