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Officials Dread Sowore’s Presence In Prison, Says Jalingo
Journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo, says Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore has done nothing wrong for protesting against bad governance.
Jalingo who said this during an interview with PUNCH said his fellow activist who was arrested on New Year Eve has been moved from Kuje Prison to Police Custody on Tuesday.
He said Sowore was brought out of prison because the officials were worried that he could whip up the other inmates in the prison.
Jalingo said, “They arrested him (Sowore) and kept him longer than the statutory number of days and still could not bring up a charge. They are just harassing him just like they have been harassing all of us.
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The system is afraid of Sowore. If not so, why are they harassing him? Boko Haram is there, bandits are there and they are negotiating with them. These people are killing up and down but the government is negotiating with them, they are granting them compensations and amnesty. Then, you keep dragging a man that you simply don’t have anything to hold against every day.
“All of us have been shouting, ‘Free Sowore, Free Sowore’, but Sowore is not worried where he is.
“When they took him to Kuje, the authorities in Kuje rejected him because they are afraid that he is going to revolutionarise other inmates. So they protested, they didn’t want to admit him. Even when I was in Afokang Prison in Calabar, it was the same thing because of the way the other prisoners were coming to listen to me. Keeping Sowore in the prison will cause more problems for them. That is why today, the court said they should keep him in police custody.”
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Wuse Zone 2 area of Abuja on Tuesday adjourned the case suit against African Action Congress Candidate and four others, till Friday.
Ekohotblog gathered that the others are Juwon Sanyaolu, Peter Williams, Emmanuel Bulus, and Damilare Adenola.
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