The Department of State Services (DSS) has given reasons its operatives are holding unto the mobile phone of frontline rights activist and Convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Mr. Omoyele Sowore.
The DSS said it was withholding Sowore’s mobile phone to investigate whether he is linked with terrorism.
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Mr. Sowore had filed a suit against the agency praying the court to compel the DSS to return his mobile devices seized during the time of his arrest in 2019.
During the hearing of the suit which came up before Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, Mr. Sowore’s counsel, Mr. Femi Falana, probed the legality of keeping Mr Sowore’s devices and some money totalling N10,000 belonging to Mr. Sowore, in the custody of the SSS especially without a court order guaranteeing same.
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Counsel to the DSS, however, said that the agency did not seize the phone, instead they were recovered during the arrest and that were still being investigated for links to terrorism.
The state’s counsel also raised objection concerning the application on grounds that Mr. Sowore is still facing trial on certain charges before another judge.
