DSS Says Sowore’s Bid to Make Its Lawyer Witness in Alleged Cyberbullying Trial Dilatory, Judge Fixes Ruling for Nov 9.
The DSS told the court that the subpoena Sowore issued on its lead counsel was in bad faith and strange in law and in criminal trial.
Under Section 192 of the Evidence Act, stated the lawyer, no legal practitioner is permitted to disclose any communication made to him in the course of his engagement unless with the consent of his client.
The DSS added that Sowore’s subpoena was an abuse of court process calculated to annoy and irritate its lead counsel.
The submission by the DSS came as the trial judge, Justice Mohammed Garba Umar, fixed November 9, to deliver ruling on Sowore’s application. The judge fixed the date after taking arguments for and against the application by counsel on both sides. At Tuesday’s proceedings, Kenneth Cyril-Ita, who represented the DSS, asked the court to set aside the subpoena issued against Kehinde, SAN, by Sowore seeking to turn the DSS lead lawyer into a witness in the trial. Sowore, through his lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide Fusika, SAN, had served a subpoena on the DSS lead counsel to appear in court to give evidence in respect of the trial of the defendant for allegedly cyberbullying President Tinubu.
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