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Court discharges Sowore, Bakare, orders DSS to release seized items
On Monday, a Federal High Court in Abuja discharged Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare of an alleged treasonable felony charge brought by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.
Justice Emeka Nwite dismissed the case in a ruling issued when A.R. Tahir, counsel for the AGF, withdrew the charge.
Justice Nwite further directed the Department of State Service (DSS) to immediately return three phones and N10,000 confiscated from Sowore upon his arrest.
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Justice Nwite also ruled that Sowore’s international passport be released.
The orders followed an application by lawyer to Sowore and Bakare, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, to tye effect.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sowore and Bakare were earlier arraigned before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu in 2019 before the matter was reassigned to Nwite.
(NAN)
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