Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, who issued the arrest warrant at the sitting, refused to accept his lawyer’s explanation that the defendant was ill and on admission in London
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Sowore and Bakare, however, pleaded not guilty to the amended two-count charge brought against them by the office of the Attorney General for the Federation and Minister of Justice
Justice Ojukwu gave the order after Aminu Alilu, counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, sought for an adjournment to enable him serve the defendants the amended charges
The operatives stormed the court, presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, seeking to arrest Sowore and his co-traveller, Olawale Bakare, have been in the custody of the DSS for more than four months over the planned #RevolutionNow.
Armed operatives of the Department of State Services stormed the courtroom, causing pandemonium and physically assaulting Sowore.
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
PRNigeria gathered that the sureties, who volunteered on their own to bail the ex-NSA, were said to have substantially met the bail conditions as announced by the court.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu who granted the bail also declared that the detention of Dasuki by the Department of State Service was illegal and unconstitutional.
Dasuki, who had been granted bail by four different High Courts in Nigeria and the ECOWAS Court of Justice, in the suit argued by his counsel, Ahmed Raji, urged the court to compel the Federal Government to obey all court orders for his release from detention
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the total sum in question is about N1.5 billion.