Cybercrime trial: Sowore moves to subpoena Onanuga, DSS DG

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has asked the Federal High Court successful Abuja for clip to get subpoenas compelling the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Special Adviser to the President connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, to attest successful his ongoing cybercrime and transgression defamation trial.

The petition was made during Wednesday’s proceedings aft a prosecution witness, DSS authoritative Uwem Davies, told the tribunal that helium acted connected the directive of the agency’s Director-General erstwhile helium wrote a missive directing Sowore to region societal media posts concerning President Bola Tinubu.

Counsel to the defendant, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN), argued that the witnesser was incapable to reply cardinal questions during cross-examination, making it indispensable for the tribunal to perceive straight from the DSS Director-General.

“We mean to use for a subpoena to compel the Director-General of the DSS to look earlier this Honourable Court, pursuing issues raised during the witness’s testimony,” Olumide-Fusika told the cour...