A bail application filed by the defense council for human rights’ activist, Omoyele Sowore, and his four colleagues, has hit the rock at the magistrate court.
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Sowore’s defence counsel from Falana & Falana Chambers, Marshal Abubakar, explained to newsmen on Friday that the AGF had asked for the case file and the Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police in charge of the case had also been asked to forward it to the Deputy Inspector General of Police.
The lawyer explained, “The case file has been transferred. The court sitting today was set for 11am. We got to the court as early as possible in anticipation for the bail application for the Sowore and others. He had been arrested and detained by the police since the first day of 2021.
“Unfortunately, the police and the authorities have yet to bring Sowore and others to court; they were ordered by the court to be detained at the FCID, Abuja. The case is between the commissioner of police and the defendant. This morning, we were informed that the case file had been transferred to the FCID, Area 10, Abuja.
“Now there was also a signal from the office of the AGF, requesting that the case file be transferred.
“The ruling on the bail application was slated for today. We’d requested that Sowore and others be remanded in FCID for obvious reasons. While they were at Kuje Correctional Centre, the condition, under which they were detained were not acceptable to us.
“This morning, we expected that Sowore and others would be brought to court. This morning, we were informed and showed copies of documents from the office of the DIG requesting for the case file from the CP.
“This morning, they also brought another signal from the office of the AGF mandating the Directorate of Public Prosecutions to take over the case from the police.”