Alleged Attack: Sowore Files N5bn Damages Suit against AGF, DSS
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has instituted a N5 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Department of State Services (DSS), its Director-General, Tosin
This report details an ongoing legal case filed by presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore against the Department of State Services (DSS), its Director-General Tosin Ajayi, the Attorney-General of the Federation, and a Deputy Director of the DSS, Benjamin Bulus. The suit, filed on October 13, 2026, seeks N5 billion in damages for an alleged violent attack and abduction of Sowore by armed DSS operatives within the Federal High Court in Abuja on June 22, 2026.
Sowore's lawyers argue that the DSS operatives acted outside the scope of a judicial remand order, physically assaulted him, and forcibly transported him to the basement of the court building against his will, violating his constitutional rights to human dignity and personal liberty.
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