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Terrorism: We’re Still Investigating Sowore’s Phones For Links – DSS Tells Court
Operatives of the Division of State Companies (DSS) have said that they’re nonetheless investigating the cellphones seized from pro-democracy campaigner and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, from way back to August 2019.
Sowore, the writer of SaharaReporters, had instituted a swimsuit in opposition to the DSS to compel the company to return his telephones seized since August 2019 when he was first arrested.
The case got here up on Wednesday earlier than Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Abuja.
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Within the opening assertion by Sowore’s lawyer, Mrs Funmi Falana, she prodded the DSS lawyer on the illegality of the seizures.
The DSS lawyer rambled away whereas attempting to elucidate why the lawless organisation, identified for human rights violations, couldn’t present a legitimate courtroom order that led them to grab the telephones and take N10,000 from his lodge room throughout his abduction in August 2019.
The DSS informed Justice Chikere that the telephones had been “recovered” throughout his arrest and never seized.
The company added that the telephones had been nonetheless being investigated for hyperlinks to terrorism.
Two legal professionals from the Ministry of Justice additionally argued that they had been elevating preliminary objection to the lawsuit as a result of Sowore was present process trial earlier than one other federal choose.
Falana, nevertheless, faulted the positions, whereas informing the choose that other than not acquiring a courtroom order to grab the telephones, the federal government had additionally refused to return the telephones and monies regardless of entreaties.
We’re Nonetheless Investigating Sowore’s Telephones For Hyperlinks
