A Federal High Court Abuja, has discharged the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare of alleged treasonable felony charge by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF).
ASHENEWS recalls that the Federal Government, penultimate week, withdrew the treasonable felony charge against the duo.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Monday after counsel for the AGF, A.R. Tahir, withdrew the charge, struck out the matter.
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Justice Nwite also ordered the Department of State Service (DSS) to immediately release three phones and the sum of N10,000 seized from Sowore during his arrest.
The judge also ordered the DSS to release a phone belonging to Bakare and the sum of N1,500 confiscated from him during his arrest.
Justice Nwite equally ordered that Sowore’s international passport be released.
The orders followed an application by lawyer to Sowore and Bakare, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, to tye effect.
Sowore and Bakare were earlier arraigned before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu in 2019 before the matter was reassigned to Nwite.
