Police Rearrest Sowore After Court Bail

A Magistrate Court sitting in Kuje has granted bail to the convener of FreeNnamdiKanu protest, Omoyele Sowore.

He was immediately re-arrested by the police after being granted bail and is expected to be arraigned on a different charge before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.

Sowore, Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, his brother Prince Emmanuel Kanu and 11 others were arrested during the protest, held in Abuja, Monday, October 21.

They were arraigned before the Court on Friday and were granted bail.
Sowore was arrested on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

He was immediately taken to the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, where he was kept in custody till this morning.

The police said Sowore flouted a lawful Court order which barred from protested around the Three-Arm Zone in Abuja.

Justice James Omotosho was said to have issued an order restricting the protesters from demonstrating in certain area of the FCT.

The 13 defendants are: Omoyele Sowore, Aloy Ejimakor, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, Joshua Emmanuel, Bishop Wilson Anyalewechi, Okere Kingdom Nnamdi, Clinton Chimeneze, Gabriel Joshua, Isiaka Husseini, Onyekachi Ferdinand, Amadi Prince, Edison Ojisom, and Godswill Obiamal.

The amended First Information Report, updated to include Sowore’s name stated that the protesters committed, “Criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, membership of an unlawful assembly, joining or continuing in unlawful assembly knowing it has been commanded to disperse, disobedience of order duly promulgated by a public servant, inciting disturbance, and disturbance of public peace contrary to sections 100, 101, 104, 152, 114 and 113 of the Penal Code Law.”

According to the charge, the defendants allegedly obstructed the movement of other citizens, disrupted the free flow of traffic, and chanted war songs while demanding Kanu’s release, in a manner said to threaten national security.

The charge further stated, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, fled upon sighting security agents and were later arrested. You thereby committed the above-mentioned offences.