Human rights activist and #FreeNnamdiKanuNow campaigner, Omoyele Sowore, has been re-arrested by the Nigerian Police shortly after his court appearance at the Kuje Magistrate Court on Friday.
Sowore, alongside Nnamdi Kanu’s brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, a former member of Kanu’s legal team, and ten others, had earlier met their bail conditions.
The court granted them bail in the sum of ₦500,000 each, with two sureties residing in the Federal Capital Territory and possessing valid identification and three years of tax clearance.
Speaking on the development, Tope Temokun, the counsel to Sowore, claimed that the police officers “descended violently upon” the activist in a bid to “abduct” him.
Temokun said the police have no legal justification to take Sowore to an “unknown destination”.
“After the court had freely and honorably granted bail to human rights defender Omoyele Sowore on liberal terms, a detachment of police officers, invaded the court premises in a display of raw impunity and disdain for the rule of law,” the lawyer said.
“They descended violently upon Omoyele Sowore and those present and, in the full glare of the public, abducted Sowore and whisked him away. In the course of standing up against this brazen illegality, I and others were physically assaulted; I sustained injuries and my bib was blood-stained in the chaos that ensued. The officers, in a most unruly and undisciplined manner, rough-handled Sowore away and whisked him away. Let it be known that Sowore was not taken to prison.”
