The Senate may start the consideration of the report on some personnel of the Department of State Services who forcefully invaded an Abuja court last year and arrested the Publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore.
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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, told our correspondent in a telephone interview on Sunday in Abuja that the report was ready for submission this week.
Bamidele said, “We held our last meeting on the issue on Tuesday and our final report would be ready this week.”
The senator told our correspondent in January that his committee’s probe would continue despite the release of the #Revolutionnow campaigner.
The Senate had on December 12, 2019 mandated the committee to investigate the reported invasion after a point of order was moved by the Bamidele.
Opeyemi had noted that Nigerians raised a lot of concern in different quarters on the issue.
He had also noted that the leadership and members of the judiciary were particularly concerned about the development, adding that the nation’s judiciary believed that the courtroom was meant to be a sanctuary.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, while ruling on the point of order, had asked the Bamidele-led panel to investigate the incident and report back to the whole house in four weeks.
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