Femi Falana (SAN)Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has challenged the continued detention of the convener of RevolutionNowmovement, Omoyele Sowore.
Falana applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja, on behalf of the detained Sowore, to set aside its order permitting the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain him for 45 days.
Falana contended that among others in the 19-ground application today, August 9 that the order issued by the court breached Sowore’s constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights.
He said that the court order is “legalizing the illegality” of his client’s detention for about four days prior to the issuance of the court order on Thursday.
Filed along with the application today was an affidavit of urgency seeking an urgent hearing of the suit on the grounds that it “is one of fundamental importance that affects salient fundamental rights of the applicant herein.”
The Federal High Court had ruled on an ex parte application by the DSS to detain Sowore for 90 days to investigate him for treason-related allegations.
However, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, yesterday, August 8, granted the agency permission to hold the activist for 45 days.
Sowore was arrested in Lagos in the early hours of Saturday for calling on Nigerian to pour out to the streets on Monday, August 5, to express their grievances, in revolution march against bad governance in the country.
