There was a mild drama at Court 7, Federal High Court, Abuja, as application by the Department of State Services counsel, Hassan Liman, to take witnesses in the ongoing trial of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, in camera failed.
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Sowore, alongside Olawale Bakare, is charged by the DSS with treasonable felony, money laundering, among others.
Operatives of the Department of State Services have allegedly threatened to kill the informant who exposed how the agency detained a Nigerian citizen, Abdullahi Ahmadu, since 2013 without access to the court or family members.
Lawan, through his counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) on Thursday, filed the matter before Justice Angela Otaluka.
The position of the DSS was contained in a statement by its spokesman, Peter Afunanya.
Dr Peter Afunanya, the Public Relations Officer of the Service, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
They said that if he insisted on attending the occasion with me, the venue would be sealed and the entire event would be stopped and not allowed to hold.
Justice Nkeonye Maya, who declined all applications by Counsel to Sowore, Femi Falana (SAN), sent the case back to Justice Taiwo Taiwo for further hearing.
Sowore, who is presently in detention, had on August 9 approached the court seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the DSS the legal backing to detain him for 45 days.
Sowore. who is presently in detention had, on Aug 9, approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the Department of State Service the legal backing to detain him for 45 days.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Department of State Services has challenged the Federal High Court order, allowing it to detain Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow protests, for 45 days against its request of 90 days pending investigation.
“Our country is bedevilled… (by) multifarious security challenges by which each agency must bring its wealth of experience and comparative advantage to compliment the effort of another.” — Director General, Department of State Services.
An ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives has summoned heads of four government agencies to appear before in on Monday, August 19.
The Nigerian Army says it was not selling application forms for enlistment into the Direct Short Service course and that there was no shortlist for DSS course 25 as being circulated on social media.
The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the Department of Security Services to speak out and take urgent steps to secure the release of a Social Activist, Abubakar Idris.
An Abuja Federal High Court will, on Thursday, rule in the application filed by the Department of State Service seeking an order to detain Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, for 90 days pending the conclusion of its investigation.
Peter Afunanya, the Public Relations Officer of DSS, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja said the service was liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance.
A former Politics Editor at Daily Trust newspaper, Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, has been arrested by the Department of State Services in Kaduna for allegedly supporting the activities of #RevolutionNow in a Facebook post.
The Department of State Services has called on Nigerians to disregard threat of revolution by Omoyele Sowore.