The federal government has filed treason charges against Omoyele Sowore, the leader of the #RevolutioNow movement and publisher of Sahara reporters.
In the suit filed at the federal high court Abuja and dated September 19, the government accused of conspiring to commit treason and money laundering and cyberstalking with one Olawale Bakare.
The suit read, “You knowingly sent messages by means of press interview granted on ‘Arise Television’ network which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing insult, enmity, hatred and ill-will on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The suit further alleged that Sowore in April 2019 “transferred by means of swift wire, the sum of $19,975 from his UBA account credited by City Bank, New York into Sahara Reporters Media Foundation GTB account with the aim of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the funds and another sum of $16,975 in July 2019”.
According to the charges, the funds transfer is contrary to section 15 (1) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011.
Sowore, has been in detaintion since August following his arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS) over the planned #RevolutioNow protest earlier in the year.
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