SSS freed the ‘Buhari-Must-Go’ protesters after a week of disobeying an order issued by the Federal High Court in Abuja for their release.
The State Security Service has finally released five ‘Buhari-Must-Go’ protesters, one of them a blind saxophonist, who were arrested by the agency about a month ago at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre in Abuja.
Mr Temokun, bent on enforcing the order of court releasing his clients, commenced a contempt suit seeking to have the SSS director-general, Yusuf Bichi, warned for his disobedience to the court order.on Monday that Mr Temokun filed a ‘Notice of Consequences of Order of Court, also known as Form 48, at the Federal High Court in Abuja on July 30, essentially warning Mr Bichi of a possibility of being jailed if he continued to disobey the court order.
The five activists still have separate fundamental rights enforcement suits they instituted against SSS at the Federal High Court in Abuja.how the five activists filed separate suits for the enforcement of their fundamental rights at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Their lawyer, Mr Temokun, argued in the separate suits, filed on July 8that his clients are entitled to “fundamental right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, right to freedom of expression and the press, right to freedom from discrimination and right to personal liberty.”
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