Court Declines Sowore's Request for Review of Detention Order
Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday declined to entertain an application by convener of #RevolutionNow Protest, Omoyele Sowore, challenging an order of the Federal High Court permitting his detention for a period of 45 days by the Department of State Services .
Though the DSS had in an exparte application prayed for the Court’s permission to keep Sowore for 90 days to enable it conclude investigation of alleged felony, the court however held that 45 days should suffice in the interim, adding that the agency can seek another order at the expiration of the first if it was yet to conclude within the 45 days given.
The motion filed by Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, was predicated on 18 grounds and supported by a 24-paragraph affidavit deposed to by one Marshall Abubakar. Falana argued that Justice Maha had the powers, under the law to review the decision of Justice Taiwo and cited several decisions of superior courts to buttress his submissions.
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