Kekere Ekun Commends The Release Of Sowore From Dss Custody

By Lukman Amusa

Former house of representative member honorable  Saheed Akorede Kekere Ekun,   representing   Lagos island constituency ii has commends the release of Omoyele Sowore and Adebayo Bakare from the Department of state security custody (Dss) today in Abuja.

He said this during a phone  interview with our correspondent.

The two activists were released today  after a 24 hours  ultimatum was given by the judge  of the federal high court in Abuja,  justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.

Their lead defence counsel, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), confirmed this development to our Correspondent on Thursday.

He also told our Correspondent that the agency had paid the sum of N100,000 awarded against it by Justice Ojukwu for making the court to adjourn till Friday for frivolous reasons on Thursday.

The two men, who are now being prosecuted by the Federal Government on charges of treasonable felony, were arrested in August over their call for ‘Revolution’ protest against what they described as “bad governance.”

But the had DSS continued to hold them in custody despite separate court orders ordering their release.

It came to a head on Thursday when the judge, who frowned at the conduct of the DSS, issued a fresh order directing the agency to release them within 24 hours.

Earlier in the day, a group of half-naked women from Sowore’s birthplace in Kiribo, Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, had stormed the Federal High Court, Abuja, to protest the continued illegal detention of their son by the DSS.

Most of the women, numbering about 30, were decked in white wrappers and bra, but with