BREAKING: Sowore rejects police bail condition, opts to remain in custody

Activist and presidential candidate of the Africa Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore has rejected a police bail condition to present a permanent secretary as surety in exchange for his freedom.

 

Sowore appeared before police on Monday after a viral video showing him berating police officers for causing traffic gridlock along Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

 

Following the release of the video, the police later claimed the refusal of Sowore to park his vehicle as directed by the police officers constituted an offence. Sowore was then accused of obstructing policemen on duty, disobeying lawful orders, cyberbullying and other sundry crimes. He was therefore summoned to appear before a police team on Monday, January 27.

 

 

After appearing before the police team at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, Sowore said he rejected the bail condition that he should present a Grade Level 17 officer, the equivalent of a permanent secretary as surety. He said he opted to stay in the police cell.

 

He said via a post on his X handle, “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.”

 

Sowore had earlier said, “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 also advised the DIG that in accepting “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 until I am charged to court, even then I know that there is no crime defined or to be investigated it is just the impunity that has become the hallmark of the @PoliceNG hierarchy.”