Centre For Change Demands Sowore’s Release, Slams Cybercrime Charges

The Centre for Change has called for the immediate and unconditional release of activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, following his remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
In a statement issued, the organisation condemned the revocation of Sowore’s bail and described his prosecution under the Cybercrime Act as an attack on free speech and political dissent.
The statement, signed by the group’s president, Joe Okei-Odumakin, criticised the decision of the court and what it described as the “Gestapo treatment” allegedly meted out to Sowore by operatives of the Department of State Services within the court premises.
Justice Mohammed...