Lagos State Police Command has declared the publisher of Sahara Reporters online newspaper, Omoyele Sowore, a wanted person.
The Command’s Commissioner, Olohundare Jimoh, at a strategic security meeting at the command headquarters in Ikeja today, November 10, said that Sowore is wanted for allegedly Inciting violent protest in Lagos.
He said that the Police had extended an invitation to the online publisher but that he has so far failed to show up.
The Commissioner, therefore, ordered Police officers to arrest Sowore wherever he is found and bring him to the State Criminal Investigation Department for proper investigation.
He said that despite an earlier letter from Sowore’s lawyer expressing his intention to bring Sowore to the command, none of them had shown up.
Jimoh said that Sowore was first declared wanted in accordance with Section 215 (1, 4, and 5) of the Nigerian Constitution, which empowered the Commissioner of Police to maintain law and order and protect lives and property.
“He never showed up. If you are declared wanted, you are to report to the nearest police station, not call me over the phone.
“The order to arrest him stands. Any officer who sights him, whether on the road, in a restaurant, or elsewhere, should arrest him and bring him to the State Criminal Investigation Department for proper investigation,” the Police boss said.
