Sowore detained by the DSS

The #RevolutionNow protest architect, Omoyele Sowore, is to stay behind bars for 45 days as a Federal High sitting in Abuja, on Thursday granted the request of the Department of State Services (DSS) to keep him in their custody to enable it conclude investigations.

While ruling, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, on an ex-parte motion by the DSS, said he would allow the agency detain Sowore for 45 days in the first instance, which could be renewed upon an application, to enable the DSS complete its investigation.

In the motion ex-parte brought by the DSS, under Section 27 of the Terrorism Prevention Act, the agency accused Sowore of engaging in terrorism Act.

It tendered two digital video disks (DVD), which contained recording of Sowore’s meeting with Nnamdi Kanu (of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra – IPOB) and an interview where Sowore was said to have boasted that members of the equally proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) were going to join forces with him to bring down the Nigerian government.