President Buhari who is today very cocky of his own rectitude was, in past incarnation, a believer in changing society through revolution
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A DSS operative who called Danlami by telephone on Wednesday morning, said the invitation was with respect to a story recently published on the Kano Ecological Fund projects
The Coordinator of the #RevolutionNow has been in the detention of the Department of State Services for over four months despite the bail granted him by courts
Sowore was rearrested by the Department of State Services last week Friday after the bail granted him was honoured a day earlier
The CSOs gave the ultimatum in a statement on Monday after their meeting in Lagos at the officer of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights
The Department of State Services had on Friday rearrested Sowore, who has been in detention for over four months, in the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja
The notice of the press conference was given in a statement by the CSOs
It said this in reaction to the arrest of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare, inside the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, on Friday
Usman, in a petition addressed to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and Director General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, explained that she was at the Senate on the said date to honour the invitation of the Joint Committee on Navy, Marine Transport and Finance to its public hearing on the Safe Anchorage Area of the Lagos Ports
As earlier reported, the operatives of the DSS had stormed the Federal High Court, where Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu was presiding, in the early hours of Friday
The Eagle online reports that Sowore and Bakare were released from the DSS detention on Thursday night after several court orders to release them went unheeded
Sowore was released hours after the lawyer of the DSS, Hassan Liman (SAN), told newsmen shortly after a Federal High Court sitting in the ongoing trial of the activist in Abuja on Thursday that the Service had done nothing wrong holding him
This was disclosed to Channels Television by the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences, Chief Superintendent of Police Olayinka Egbeyemi
This was made known late on Friday
When you consider the implications of law enforcement and security agencies succumbing to the persistent pressure from the NGOs and their collaborators in high and low places to “respect” the rights of “activists”, the necessity of having law enforcement and security agencies is as glaring as the “evil genius” of the NGOs covert agenda of anti-governmental operations
Bakare said this on Sunday during his annual “State of the Nation” broadcast at the church’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos
Maina had been on the run in the last four years.
Sowore was taken to court on Monday morning after last week’s ruling by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja granting him bail
In the charges, the Nigerian Government, which is detaining Sowore at the facility of the Department of State Services, accused him of treasonable felony and money laundering
Security personnel comprising mainly of operatives of the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps mounted security checks at both ends of the stretch of the road to the court