The
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal
Investigations Department (SCID) in Lagos, has invited the publisher of
SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore.
Omoyele Sowore
The Nigeria police on Monday again invited the publisher of
SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, to a meeting on Thursday with the
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal
Investigations Department (SCID) in Lagos.
The invitation, which came in the form of a text message, did not
disclose the purpose of the meeting. It merely invited Mr. Sowore and
his colleagues to meet with the police authorities for an interview at
10a.m at the SCID headquarters in the Yaba area of Lagos.
Mr. Sowore was on January 9, physically assaulted in Lagos by one
Lekan Fatodu over a report by SaharaReporters detailing how Mr. Fatodu
was allegedly used as a front by former Aviation Minister Femi
Fani-Kayode to corner public funds through the office of the National
Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
When Mr. Sowore was brought before Fatai Owoseni, the Commissioner
of Police in Lagos, the police claimed a petition alleging criminal
libel had been submitted by Mr. Fatodu against Mr. Sowore.
The following day when Mr. Sowore arrived at the SCID, the police
were more interested in “mediation”, asking Mr. Sowore to meet Mr.
Fatodu to resolve their differences.
Mr. Sowore refused, saying the police had been dishonest in the handling of the case.
His attorney, Femi Falana, on January 12 issued a statement saying
the allegations of threat to life, criminal libel and extortion stated
in Mr. Fatodu’s petition were false.
A few days after Mr. Sowore’s release, a strange dimension to the
matter arose when a lawyer, Ugochukwu Osuagwu, issued a statement
claiming that Mr. Sowore had been barred from leaving Nigeria over Mr.
Fatodu’s petition.
Mr. Osuagwu is the same lawyer who, in January, addressed a
petition to the police on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf
Buratai, which led to the arrest of two Premium Times journalists a few
days after Mr. Sowore was attacked and arrested in Lagos.
The continued police harassment of Mr. Sowore and other journalists
has attracted condemnation by press freedom bodies across the globe.
Mr. Sowore told our reporters he plans to honour the invitation of
the police on Thursday, an event which coincides with his birthday.
Source: Premium Times
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