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On Thursday, the court ordered the DSS to release Sowore within 24 hours. He was later released in the evening of the same day.
But on Friday, DSS agents pulled their guns in a show of force causing confusion in the court premises and arrested the activist.
Staff of the court were said to have taken to their heels, and the judge was reportedly chased out of the court.
The secret police had kept Sowore in custody against court orders for his release before this recent arrest.The current arrest is against a subsisting order.
Words of the Convener of the RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, alleging that the Department of State Service (DSS) has threatened to kill him after his release
“It might be my only word on the record before they kill me; this is an attempt to assassinate me in court. They came with guns and they tried to shoot and they dragged me down in front of a judge after I have been granted bail.
“I said it that these are a bunch of lawless people and they were reluctant to respect the order of the court. Now they have shown it to the whole world.
“They tried to break me in prison, sent delegations to me, offering all kinds of things and I refused and they promised that I will not walk out of their detention alive and that is what they have come to implement today.
“What is important for Nigerians to know is that I am not going to give up until every Nigerian benefit from a country that is theirs and I have made it very clear.
“Nobody in Nigeria should be afraid, it is our country and some people have to make the sacrifice for this country to be a country of rule, law and of dignity; and this also involves even judges, if suspects who have been given bail are not safe in court, the judges themselves are not safe.”
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