The charges were filed a day before the expiration of the detention order of the Federal High Court in Abuja permitting the Department of State Service to keep the activist for 45 days.
The Federal Government on Friday filed seven counts of treasonable
felony and money laundering against the Convener of #RevolutionNow
protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and a presidential candidate in
the February 2019 presidential election, is charged along with Olawale
Bakare, also known as Mandate.
The charges were signed on behalf of the Attorney-General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), by Aminu
Alilu, a Chief State Counsel in the Department of Public Prosecutions of
the Federation, the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The charges were filed a day before the expiration of the detention
order of the Federal High Court in Abuja permitting the Department of
State Service to keep the activist for 45 days.
The detention order elapses on September 21.
In the charges instituted against the defendants, the prosecution
accused Sowore and his co-defendant of committing conspiracy to commit
treasonable felony in breach of section 516 of the Criminal Code Act by
allegedly staging “a revolution campaign on September 5, 2019 aimed at
removing the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
The prosecution also accused them of committing the actual offence of
reasonable felony in breach of section, 4(1)(c) of the Criminal Code
Act, by using the platform of Coalition for Revolution, in August 2019
in Abuja, Lagos and other parts of Nigeria, to stage the #RevolutionNow
protest allegedly aimed at removing the President.
It also accused Sowore of cybercrime offences in violation of section
24(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention) Act, by
“knowingly” sending “messages by means of press interview granted on
Arise Television network which you knew to be false for the purpose of
causing insult, enmity, hatred and ill-will on the person of the
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
It also accused Sowore of money laundering offences in breach of section
15(1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 by alleged
transferring by means of swift wire.
The sums of money he was said to have been involved in the alleged
transfers were the sums of $19,975 on April 2, 2019; $20,475 on May 21,
2019, $16,975 on June 27, 2019, and another $16,975 on July 16, 2019.
The DSS arrested Sowore in Lagos on August 2, 2019, following his call
for revolution in a protest he organised to take place in some major
cities on August 5.
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