Director of Nigeria’s Department of State Security (DSS) Yusuf Bichi was recently threatened with a prison sentence for refusing to release Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore despite a court order by a Federal High court sitting in Abuja. The court said in a notice to DSS

Take notice, that unless you obey the direction…to release the applicant in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/915/2019, forthwith you will be guilty of contempt of court and liable to be committed to prison,” director.

“The court has been informed that even as today, Thursday, September 26, you are yet to comply with the lawful order of the Federal High Court by refusing to release the applicant namely; Omoyele Sowore, in your custody.

The court on Tuesday ordered DSS to release Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) from its custody.



The court, however, asked him to deposit his international passport with it before he is released.

The judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, said the law provides for the freedom of all Nigerians regardless of economic or political status.

He ruled that there was no extant order allowing Sowore’s further detention before the court after the expiration of the 45 days it granted DSS to detain him. The judge said:


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