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DSS Plans To File Fresh Charges Against Sowore – Falana Raises Alarm

12Nov

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DSS Plans To File Fresh Charges Against Sowore – Falana Raises Alarm

Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has raised the alarm over plans by the Department of State Services to file fresh charges against detained pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, on Tuesday with a view to keeping him further in incarceration. Falana made the disclosure on Monday during a programme on Channels TV. The respected lawyer said that he will file contempt charges against the agency on Tuesday. He said the contempt proceedings is to compel the DSS Director-General, Yusuf Bichi, to justify in court why the agency had disobeyed orders directing that his client be released.

Sowore: DSS Lied, I Personally Served Them Court Order – Falana

Mr Femi Falana, SAN, counsel Mr Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to a claim by the Department of State Services (DSS) that it was not served with copies of the order directing the release of the publisher. In a telephone interview on Thursday evening, Falana, said he doubts that the statement made by the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, was authorised by the Director-General of the agency, Yusuf Bichi. According to him, “the DSS has a duty to comply, not only with this order, but also with all the orders made by courts of law in Nigeria.” The Punch Newspaper had reported a statement attributed to Mr Afunaya stating that the DSS was yet to receive the court order for Mr Sowore’s release. “We have not received the court order. And his (Sowore’s) counsel is a very senior member of ...

DSS Chief Trying To Cover Saraki Loot

Revealed: Why DSS Tries Hard To Exonerate Saraki Over N310M Robbed By His Security Aides In a development that points to the ways in which high-level personal relationships are undermining Nigeria’s anti-corruption agenda, the Department of State Services (DSS) has again rushed to the media, using unnamed officers, to deny that Senate President Bukola Saraki was the owner of N310 million stolen by the senator’s security aides from an operator of a bureau de change who was moving the cash. Mr. Saraki has close personal friendships with Director General of the DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, as well as other politically influential people, including a former military head of state. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAPR 03, 2017 A source at the DSS said he and other agents were surprised that Mr. Dau...