Pro-democracy activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has vowed to sue the Federal Government and the Department of State Services to the tune of ₦100 billion, for the cost of time and resources, mental and financial trauma caused his person, businesses, wife and children, and extended family, and the alleged assassination of his younger brother, Olajide Sowore in 2021.
He made the development known on Thursday in an exclusive telephone interview with The Punch.
The pro-democracy activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress noted that he would sue the FG both in Nigeria and the United States for all the trauma and pains that were inflicted on him while he was detained and later confined within Nigeria for about five years.
Sowore said, “I’m not supposed to be congratulated because the Federal Government had now decided to discontinue the treasonable felony case against me. I didn’t commit any crime, they only decided to waste my time and the resources of the country.
“But we’re not giving up. I will sue the Federal Government of Nigeria and the DSS for ₦100 billion as compensation for the cost of time and resources, mental and financial trauma that they caused my person, my businesses, my wife and children, and my extended family, and also for the assassination of my brother, Olajide Sowore during this five-year period that I was abducted, detained, and now confined to Nigeria while they seized my passport.”
