{"id":176477,"date":"2025-08-28T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/stop-vendetta-against-sowore-group-warns-igp"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:20:09","slug":"stop-vendetta-against-sowore-group-warns-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/stop-vendetta-against-sowore-group-warns-igp","title":{"rendered":"Stop Vendetta Against Sowore Group Warns IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President of De-Advocates for Justice Human Rights Organisation, AJ, Comrade Israel Joe, has called for discontinuation of the personal vendetta against human rights activist, Sowore Omoyele, by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun.<\/p>\n<p>The activist has threatened that his group and other civil society groups will, in solemn solidarity, occupy the court on the same day either to see justice or observe a subversive collective will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>He condemned the actions of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, for his vindictiveness against the person of Omoyele Sowore with regards to demanding details about his account as a law-abiding citizen of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement sent to our Correspondent in Warri.<\/p>\n<p>Joe said, \u201cThis is an antique of the ruling class to silence dissenting voices, especially that of a patriotic activist, nationalist, Pan-African journalist, and businessman in the person of Comrade Omoyele Sowore through a counter-productive court process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the same charge I was threatened with by the police in Delta State Command when I spearheaded and led the #EndHarshipProtest in Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was detained for hours while the police scrambled for my financial records to implicate me. However, they found none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President of De-Advocates for Justice Human Rights Organisation, AJ, Comrade Israel Joe, has called for discontinuation of the personal vendetta against human rights activist, Sowore Omoyele, by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun. 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