A judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Evelyn Maha, has declined the request by detained Convener of #RevoltionNow, Omoyele Sowore..
A judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Evelyn Maha, has declined the request by detained Convener of #RevoltionNow, Omoyele Sowore, to hear his motion challenging his continued detention by the Department of State Services .
Rather than wait for the expiration of the 45 days granted the DSS, Sowore returned to the court, via a motion filed on August 9, demanding, among others, that the court vacates the order for his detention, made ex parte. She averred that having earlier issued her ruling before Falana’s oral application, she was functus officio .In the motion challenging his detention, Sowore, who is the publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February election, kicked at the detention order.
“The motion ex parte was predicated on suppression and misrepresentation of material facts. The motion ex parte constitutes a gross abuse of the process of this honourable court. “The order made on August 8 was based on a wrong presumption and mistake that the complaint against the respondent therein relates to terrorism.
In the counter-affidavit deposed to by Godwin Agbadua, an official of the DSS, the service averred that Sowore was arrested on reasonable suspicion of having committed a capital offence, following his alleged involvement in terrorist activities.
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