Barely 24 hours after Justice Taiwo Taiwo of an Abuja Federal High Court granted the Department of State Services (DSS) the permission to detain him for 45 days, the convener of ‘RevolutionNow’, Mr Omoyele has appealed the ruling.
In a motion on notice filed on Friday, he asked the Federal High Court to set aside the ex parte order of the court for his detention.
In the motion which has a suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/915/2019 filed by his lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, Sowore asked for such order or other orders as the court may deem fit.
The application is predicated on 18 grounds, including that the said order breached the fundamental rights provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Mr Falana said Sowore’s detention for an initial four days period before the grant of the ex-parte order was illegal by virtue of Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). He added that the order brought pursuant to Section 27 (1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2013, was obtained by the DSS to legalise his client’s illegal detention.
He asserted that the DSS had concluded investigation of the case and announced its findings in a press briefing.
At the time of filing this report, no date has been fixed for hearing of the motion.