Groups Flay Rejection Of Application For Sowore’s Freedom, Plan Sept 5 Rallies

By Editor

Groups under the auspices of Coalition of Human and Civil Rights Organizations (COHCRO) have urged security agents, especially, the Department of State Security (DSS) in the country to stop concocting what it described as lies in order to justify the continued detention of Comrade Omoyele Sowore.

Sowore who championed the call for a revolution protest on August 5, against the mirage of problems facing the country has been in the custody of the DSS since August 3.

His detention was given official order by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court and upheld on Wednesday by Justice Nkweonye Maha of the Federal High Court who refused to review his continued detention.

Reacting to the Federal High Court, Abuja’s rejection of an application to release him from custody, COHCRO’s National Coordinator, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman in a statement said that the fundamental rights of the applicant should be respected in this matter of national importance.

It stated that the action of Justice Maha was tantamount to miscarriage of justice and against the international best judicial  practices and tenets of Nigeria Constitutional democracy.

It added that the laws in Nigeria were made presently in typical Orwellian fashion, in which all animals were supposed to be equal but some were equal other than others.

The statement revealed that no fewer than 53 civil rights groups had concluded arrangement to organize 2million man march protest on 5th of September,2019, to demand for release of Sowore.

The groups include; Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Save Lagos Group ( SLG),Centre for Defence of Yoruba Unity, Centre for Constitutional Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusader, Veteran Group for Operation Clean Crusade (VGOCC) and host of others.

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