Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore has been released by the Department of State Security, DSS. Shortly after his release this evening, He was heard chanting ‘#RevolutionNow’.
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.
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 defendants 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 defendants, Femi Falana SAN, had complained to the court that its order as regards the release of documents and the defendants who had been granted bail had not been complied with by the prosecution.
However, Politics Nigeria has footage of Sowore chanting #RevolutionNow shortly after his release. Watch below;
