Omoyele Sowore, activist and the publisher of Sahara Reporters, has regained freedom after three days in police custody.
Sowore announced his release in a social media post on Friday evening.
“Nigeria Police Force and its illegal IGP has capitulated to the demands of the revolutionary movement, I have been released from unjust, unwarranted & unlawful detention. However, it is nothing to celebrate, work tongues, but I can’t do without thanking you all for not giving up. You’ve all seen the power of unity,” Sowore wrote on X.
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Sowore was honouring an invitation from the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja when they detained him.
He had arrived at the Force Headquarters at about noon with a travel bag and was taken into custody shortly after. The police did not provide any official complaint or show the petition against him.
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The original police letter accused Sowore of “inciting disturbance,” according to a report by Sahara Reporters. On Monday, a new letter was issued to his lawyer replacing that accusation with allegations of forgery and criminal defamation.
Sowore’s representatives reported that the police had manhandled him while trying to move him to an underground facility on Thursday.
On Friday, Abayomi Shogunle, the Commissioner of Police for the Special Intervention Squad, revealed that the police wanted to get Sowore’s source for the police document they claimed was forged.
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