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Detained Five #BuhariMustGo Activists File Contempt Proceedings Against Director-General Of Nigeria’s Secret Police

The form 48 otherwise known as contempt of court sighted by SaharaReporters, is titled, “Notice of Consequences of Disobedience to Order of Court.”

Five activists arrested at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, have filed a contempt suit against the Director General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, for disobeying the court order granting them bail.

The lawyer to the activists, Tope Temokun, filed the suit on their behalf at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.

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Justice Obiora Egwuatu had on Monday, July 26, granted bail to five activists who were arrested and detained by the DSS since July 4, 2021 on the allegation of wearing T.Shirts with inscription #BuhariMustGo at the church.

In the bid to enforce the release order, the detained activists, who had spent 29 days in the custody of the SSS, filed form 48 against the DSS boss seeking his committal to jail unless he gives effect to the order of the court.

The form 48 otherwise known as contempt of court sighted by SaharaReporters, is titled, “Notice of Consequences of Disobedience to Order of Court.” 

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It reads, “Take notice that unless you obey the directions contained in this endorsed order (herein with endorsed). You shall be guilty of contempt of court and shall be liable to be committed to prison.”

Recall that a Magistrate Court sitting in Mpape had Wednesday, July 28, also admitted the activists to bail in the sum of N500,000 each with one surety each but the DSS operatives hurriedly drove the activists away before perfecting the bail conditions.