{"id":155031,"date":"2019-09-25T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155031"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:56:14","slug":"sowore-court-has-done-the-right-thing-says-chidi-odinkalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155031","title":{"rendered":"Sowore: Court Has Done The Right Thing, Says Chidi Odinkalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sowore-Court-Has-Done-The-Right-Thing-Says-Chidi-Odinkalu.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has described the ruling of Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the release of Omoyele Sowore from the Department of State Services detention as the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>Odinkalu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with SaharaReporters.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is the right thing to do, we are in a democracy under a written constitution with fundamental rights guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you detain a person and he is now in detention for over 45 days and no charges had been preferred yet, in a democracy, this should stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad that the court granted him quite sensible conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the court where he is supposed to be going for trial is actually saying release him to his lawyer till the government is ready to arraign him, it tells you something.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has described the ruling of Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the release of Omoyele Sowore from the Department of State Services detention as the right decision. Odinkalu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with SaharaReporters. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[9299,10526],"class_list":["post-155031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-chidi-anselm-odinkalu","tag-omoyele-sowore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}