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In a strongly worded press statement released on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, and signed by its Director General, Dr. Chidi Nwanyanwu, the group accused the Nigerian police of abusing the judicial process to carry out “criminality in uniform.”
The Take-It-Back (TIB) Movement Global has condemned the continued detention of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, describing the so-called court order used by the Nigeria Police Force to remand the activist as a fraudulent document used to mask political persecution.
In a strongly worded press statement released on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, and signed by its Director General, Dr. Chidi Nwanyanwu, the group accused the Nigerian police of abusing the judicial process to carry out “criminality in uniform.”
The group said the remand order being paraded by the police was secured in secrecy and lacked any legitimate basis in law, describing it as a tool of dictatorship and state-sanctioned oppression.
TIB Global further accused the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, whom it described as “illegitimate,” and a senior police officer, Fakorede, of acting like “political enforcers for tyranny.”
The movement warned that no amount of “courtroom manipulation, secret orders, or police gangsterism” would lend legitimacy to Sowore’s unlawful detention.
The statement reads: “The Take It Back Movement Global condemns in the strongest terms the continued unlawful detention of our comrade and frontline revolutionary, Omoyele Sowore, under a fraudulent process now being masked as a “court order.”
“According to the latest development, we have learned that the police are claiming to have secured a remand order from a court, but in their usual unlawful manner. This is not law; it is criminality in uniform.
“We want to make it categorically clear: no amount of courtroom manipulation, secret orders, or police gangsterism will give legitimacy to this political detention.
“The actions of the Nigeria Police Force and their agents, led by the illegitimate IGP and executed by the notorious Fakorede, are nothing short of state-backed kidnapping and persecution. The judicial process cannot be used as a cover for dictatorship.
“The Take It Back Movement Global is therefore putting the world on notice. We reject this charade disguised as justice. Nigerians at home and abroad must rise to confront this growing tyranny.
“The barricades must go up. The people must resist. We will not allow the state to crush a voice that has refused to bow to oppression.”
Sowore was detained on Wednesday, August 6, after reportedly honouring a police invitation.
His head of legal team, Barrister Tope Temokun accused the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of turning the Nigeria Police Force into a tool for personal vendetta against activist Omoyele Sowore, who is currently being detained by the police.
In a press statement issued on Thursday, Temokun warned that Sowore’s life may be in danger while in police custody, alleging that the Inspector-General is using state resources to “vent his vile, anger and bitterness by proxy” against the activist.
Sowore was detained on Wednesday, August 6, after reportedly honouring a police invitation.
However, Temokun claims the arrest was orchestrated by the same institution that Sowore has consistently criticised for corruption, cronyism, and unprofessional conduct.
“We entertain a strong apprehension that Omoyele Sowore, who was taken into custody following his honouring of the invitation extended to him by the Nigeria Police, is not safe in the custody of the Police, under IGP Egbetokun, who has been at the centre of the crossfire of Sowore’s criticism these past months,” Temokun stated.
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