The Nigeria Police Force on Friday forcefully rearrested human rights activist and SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, outside the Kuje magistrate’s court in Abuja, moments after the court granted him bail.
The incident occurred shortly after the magistrate, Abubakar Sai’id, granted bail to Mr Sowore and 12 others arrested over Monday’s #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in Abuja.
Witnesses told Sahara Reporters that officers led by the Investigating Police Officer, Ilyasu Barau, of the FCT Police Command’s Anti-Vice unit, swooped on the activist while his lawyers were working to perfect his bail conditions.
“They dragged him on the ground and pushed him into a van,” an eyewitness who requested anonymity said.
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