The bail application filed by the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and four others Friday suffered a temporary setback following the failure of the Nigeria Police Force to produce the defendants in court.
While lamenting the development in a chat with newsmen at the Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, Sowore’s lawyer, Marshal Abubakar said the Police claimed to have handed the case file to a Deputy Inspector General of Police for further prosecution.
He explained that the DIG who was called to produce the defendants claimed to have handed the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution on the instruction of the Attorney General of the Federation.
Sowore and the other defendants, it would be recalled, are standing trial for alleged criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly and inciting public disturbance.
Chief Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello was billed to rule on the bail application filed by the defendants.
