{"id":175155,"date":"2025-08-20T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-is-down-sowore-criticizes-dss-screening-sans"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:08:08","slug":"nigeria-is-down-sowore-criticizes-dss-screening-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-is-down-sowore-criticizes-dss-screening-sans","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Is Down Sowore Criticizes DSS Screening SANs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has condemned the Department of State Security Service\u2019s planned screening of the new Senior Advocate of Nigeria designates.<\/p>\n

He made his condemnation known in a statement in his X account on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This comes as a senior advocate of Nigeria, Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro, had on Monday raised an alarm over the development.<\/p>\n

Akinboro described the situation as illegal and an attempt to truncate the independence of the country\u2019s legal profession.<\/p>\n

Reacting, Sowore decried the collapse of courage in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians, at nearly every level, have capitulated, weighed down by the sheer force of their individual and collective weaknesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe collapse of courage and conviction is everywhere you look.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the @OfficialDSSNG now screening Senior Advocates of Nigeria. The so-called guardians of justice are reduced to seeking clearance from the very instruments of oppression. C\u2019est fini. Nigeria is down!\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the DSS neither confirmed nor denied the claim as of the time of filling this report.<\/p>\n

Recall that in July 2025, the Legal Practitioners\u2019 Privileges Committee (LPPC) named 57 legal practitioners as candidates for elevation to SAN.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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