After receiving an invitation from the Nigeria Police, rights activist Omoyele Sowore has on Monday honoured the invitation and was grilled at the Force Intelligence Bureau in Abuja over his recent viral extortion video involving some police officers.
Sowore, his attorneys, and a few others chanted songs of solidarity as they arrived at the Force Intelligence Bureau.
Sowore said that the officers were involved in several criminal activities on Lagos State’s Murtala Muhammed Airport Road in the video.
In the video, Sowore had an altercation with some of the police officers who flagged down a car conveying him to the airport in Lagos and asked the driver to park.
The viral video sparked several reactions, causing the police to invite him for further interrogation.
Monday’s visit was not Sowore’s first encounter with the police and other security agencies. In September 2024, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) was “briefly detained” at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos for his alleged connection with the #EndBadGovernance protests that rocked the country in August.
In February 2024, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja struck out charges of treasonable felony brought against the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest by the Federal Government after the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, filed a notice of discontinuance before the court.
