In a new twist of events, the DSS has insisted that no one has come forward to receive the detained activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoleye Sowore, a situation the agency claims has stalled his release from detention, stressing that vehicle may knock him down on his way out without his lawyer Femi Falana(SAN) coming to fetch him.
Peter Afunanya, the DSS spokesperson while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday reitrated the agency’s initial claim that Sowore’a lawyer, Femi Falana(SAN) was yet to come forward to receive his client.
He said: “We cannot just release Sowore and ask him to go because he may be knocked down by a vehicle at the gate.”
He also made it known that Falana had not been to the headquarters of the service since the activist was granted bail.
Stressing further, Afunanya maintained that the agency was following administrative procedures by insisting that Sowore’s sureties come forward for proper docentation.
He said, “We respect rules and orders of the court and there was never a time the Director-General said he would not release Sowore.”