Omoyele Sowore,a publisher and human rights advocate, went to the Force Intelligence Department Headquarters in Abuja on Monday to be questioned by police after uploading a viral video claiming that he had been extorted by police at a Lagos checkpoint. He asserted that because of the conditions attached to the bail request, he had refused bail and consented to stay in police custody.
IREPORT247NEW stated earlier that Sowore received an invitation from the police and appeared at 9:58 a.m. The activist was called to respond to a number of accusations, such as hindering and resisting public officials, disobeying legal directives, cyberstalking, and actions purportedly meant to thwart arrests.
He had earlier said on his facebook page that the Deputy Inspector-General of the FID, Dasuki Galandachi, informed him of the bail offer pending the conclusion of an “investigation.”
“The DIG of FID, Dasuki Galandachi, at the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja had just informed me that he has instructed his personnel to grant me bail, pending the conclusion of the “investigation.”
“I have advised the DIG that in accepting the “bail”, I will not agree to conditions that compromise my innocence, dignity, and integrity. If such unreasonable conditions are imposed. I will choose to remain in detention.”
However, Sowore later claimed in a post on his Facebook page “I have rejected a bail condition asking me to present a level 17 Permanent Secretary, instead i have offered to remain in police custody pending when the joke is over with. #RevolutionNow.
“The Nigeria Police Force has requested that i deposit my International Passport and provide a level 17 Civil Servant as a guarantor for bail, he Added.
