DSS spurns court's order on Sowore, to dock him next week

DSS spurns court’s order on Sowore, to dock him next week vanguardngr.com vanguardnews

Four days after the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Department of State Services to release the convener of the

But exactly 54 days after Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general election was locked-up, the court which had earlier granted the DSS leave to retain him in custody for 45 days, ordered that he should be released “forthwith.” He held that since the application has been struck out, there was nothing before the court to warrant Sowore’s continued stay in detention.“The constitutional right to liberty of the high and the low, as well as the poor and the rich is guaranteed under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the DSS had since spurned the order, despite frantic attempts by Sowore’s lawyers to secure his freedom. Consequently, he filed a Form-48, which is a “Notice of Consequence of Disobedience of Court Order” for Bichi to adduce reasons why he should not be jailed for disobeying the court order.

Despite its denial of the court order, the DSS, on Friday, blocked an attempt by a bailiff of the court to re-serve it with the order.

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