Thread by @ijaola_ibrahim

Omoyele Sowore has been charged with 7 counts of treasonable felony and money laundering a day before his 45 day detention order lapsed.

He was charged alongside Olawale Bakare (also known as Mandate).

The charges include:

1) Conspiracy to commit treasonable felony in breach

of section 516 of the Criminal Code Act by allegedly staging “a revolution campaign on September 5, 2019 aimed at removing the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during his term of office other than by constitutional means”.

2) Cybercrime offences in violation of section 24(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention) Act, by “knowingly” sending “messages by means of press interviews 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.”

3) The actual offence of treasonable felony in breach of section, 4(1)(c) of the Criminal Code Act, 'by using the platform of Coalition for Revolution, in August 2019 in Abuja, Lagos and other parts

of Nigeria, to stage the #RevolutionNow protest allegedly aimed at removing the President.'

4) Money laundering offences in breach of section 15(1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 by alleged transferring by means of swift wire.$19,975 on April 2, 2019; $20,475

on May 21, 2019, $16,975 on June 27, 2019, and another $16,975 on July 16, 2019.

Oro ti pesi je, oro di hun.