{"id":15934,"date":"2019-09-25T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15934"},"modified":"2019-09-25T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:20:58","slug":"sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release","title":{"rendered":"Sowore meets bail conditions, Falana at DSS for his release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer, Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Femi_Falana\">Femi Falana<\/a>, visited the headquarters of the Department of State Service in Abuja on Wednesday to secure the release of convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from the agency\u2019s custody.<\/p>\n<p>Falana visited the DSS office after Sowore has complied with the Tuesday order of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which directed him to deposit his passport at the court registry as condition for his release from the custody of the security agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am currently at their headquarters. Having complied with the condition given by the court, I am here for Sowore\u2019s release,\u201d Falana told our Correspondent on the telephone at about 4pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201caffidavit of compliance with court order\u201d deposed to by a lawyer in Falana\u2019s law firm, Mr. Marshal Abubakar, was filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja as confirmation of the submission of Sowore\u2019s affidavit to the Deputy Chief Registrar of the court.<\/p>\n<p>It reads in part, \u201cThat on September 24, 2019, this honorable court per Hon. Justice Taiwo Taiwo mandated the applicant\/respondent to release the respondent\/applicant forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the said order has since been served on the applicant\/respondent (DSS). Attached hereto and marked Exhibit 1 is a copy of the endorsement by the applicant\/respondent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the court also ordered the respondent\/applicant to deposit his international passport with the Deputy Chief Registrar of this honorable court within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the respondent\/applicant\u2019s international passport with passport number A50255207 has been deposited with the Deputy Chief Registrar of this honorable court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A letter titled, \u2018Notice of compliance with court order\u2019 was signed by Abubakar and addressed to the office of the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was received Wednesday by the office of the DCR.<\/p>\n<p>It reads in part, \u201cIn line with the court order we respectfully forward with the instant correspondence, the international passport of Mr. Stephen Omoyele Sowore with passport number A50255207 to your good self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Taiwo Taiwo had on Tuesday ordered the release o Sowore, from the custody of the Department of State Service immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said the activist should be released to his lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), who is to produce him for arraignment whenever he is needed.<\/p>\n<p>The judge however said since charges had already been filed against the activist, he must deposit his passport and other travel documents to guarantee his availability for trial.<\/p>\n<p>He ordered that the passport should be deposited at the court\u2019s registry within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>He said since the order for detention permitting the DSS to keep the activist for 45 days had expired, the activist ought to be released immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The DSS, on September 3, arrested Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and former presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections over his call for revolution protest scheduled to hold on September 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, visited the headquarters of the Department of State Service in Abuja on Wednesday to secure the release of convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from the agency\u2019s custody. Falana visited the DSS office after Sowore has complied with the Tuesday order of the Federal High Court in Abuja, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[119,102,729,674],"class_list":["post-15934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dss","tag-falana","tag-san","tag-sowore"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sowore meets bail conditions, Falana at DSS for his release - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, visited the headquarters of the Department of State Service in Abuja on Wednesday to secure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sowore meets bail conditions, Falana at DSS for his release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, visited the headquarters of the Department of State Service in Abuja on Wednesday to secure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-25T18:20:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/sowore-777x437.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"777\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"437\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Sowore meets bail conditions, Falana at DSS for his release\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-25T18:20:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\"},\"wordCount\":488,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/sowore-777x437.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"DSS\",\"FALANA\",\"SAN\",\"Sowore\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/sowore-meets-bail-conditions-falana-at-dss-for-his-release\",\"name\":\"Sowore meets bail conditions, Falana at DSS for his release - 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