By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Precise Post) – Federal High Court has granted the State Security Service an approval to keep the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore in custody for initial 45 days over alleged terrorism.
Taiwo Taiwo of the Abuja Division also said the SSS would get additional permission to keep locking Mr Sowore up for his activism.
Recall that Mr Sowore was arrested for allegedly planning RevolutionNow Protest in Nigeria slated for Monda.
Precise Post recalls that Mr Sowore who is also the Publisher of Sahara Reporters was arrested in Lagos on August 3 by SSS operatives who stormed his apartment for alleged terrorism.
The arrest came two days before the nationwide protest scheduled to take place on August 5 across the country.
After keeping Mr Sowore in custody for more than 48 hours in violation of the law, the SSS asked a federal judge for permission to further incarcerate him and was granted on Thursday morning.
Despite the DSS admitting that it had no evidence of a plot to take over government against Mr Sowore, the judge still granted the secret police permission to keep him under the anti-terrorism law.
The remand order was granted ex-parte, meaning Mr Sowore was not allowed to be represented by a lawyer and the judge took the decision based on only the claim of the SSS.
Details Later…
