Department of State Services has obtained a court order to detain seven arrested #Revolutionnow movement members in Osun State for another 14 days.
The protesters’ lawyer, Mr. Alfred Adegoke, said seven of them were still being held by the DSS.
But Adegoke said despite the detention order, the courts could still entertain application for bail.
According to Adegoke, “The DSS got ex parte order to detain them (the protesters) for 14 days pending the conclusion of investigation. A lawyer I sent there earlier brought back that report. The lawyer spoke with the Director and they said he should talk to the Legal Officer.
“They said despite the detention order they got, application for bail can still be made. They asked him to come back tomorrow (Thursday).”
Meanwhile, a group, Movement for a Socialist Alternative has demanded the release of the arrested protesters.
The group made this demand in a press statement by its spokesperson, Dagga Tolar.
The statement was titled ‘Free Dunnex Samuel and other activists arrested for converging for peaceful protests.’
It described the arrest as “an act of state terror, pure and simple, that these protesters were arrested for exercising their lawful rights to speak out loudly against the oppressive conditions obtainable across the country.
“We demand their immediate and unconditional release. We condemn this tradition of using the DSS to repress every lawful opposition to the oppressive regime of Muhamadu Buhari.
“Nigerians cannot have it, as the regime is suggesting, that they are a conquered people in their own country, who cannot express their dissatisfaction, no matter how peaceful, against the daily hardship and oppression they suffer in the hands of the capitalist hordes Buhari is representing.”