The Department of State Services has again denied access to Omoyele Sowore’s lawyers, Sahara Reporters, reports.
The online tabloid owned by Mr Omoyele said that the lawyers “who wanted to retrieve him from their detention facility after the agency’s spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, claimed that no one had come for Sowore,” were denied access to do so.
Just yesterday (Friday), Mr. Afunaya, the spokesperson of the DSS said the organisation was a law-abiding agency committed to the rule of law, claim, counsel to Sowore, Femi Falana, SAN, had refuted, saying his lawyers waited at the facility on Thursday for four hours to no avail.
However, on Saturday morning, lawyers and activists stormed the facility to take Sowore home but were met with stiff resistance by operatives, who said they had no clearance to let him go.
The development comes amidst public condemnation of theatrics by the DSS that had flouted two court orders for Sowore’s release.
