Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters arrested by DSS

Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist and publisher of Online News platform, SaharaReporters has been arrested by security agents believed to be operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS)

A statement by Mr. Sowore’s lawyer, Inibehe Effing, reads:

“Mr Omoyele Sowore is currently in the custody of the SSS. His phones have been confiscated. This is a panic response from a decayed regime that is so sacred of its own shadow.

“The #RevolutionNow Movement has come to stay and no dictator can stop it.”

According to his associate at Sahara Reporters, a statement was released, and it states;

“It was gathered that Sowore was picked up at his apartment in the early hours of Saturday.

“Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am with an eyewitness confirming that his phone was forcefully taken from him.

The tweet read, ” DSS invades Sowore’s”.

“He also tweeted ” Ja p”, confirming his phone must have been seized while trying to raise the alarm about his arrest.

“His arrest and detention are not unconnected to #RevolutionNow, a series of planned protests against bad governance in Nigeria scheduled for August 5, 2019.

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