BREAKING: Owner of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, arrested by DSS
Owner of SaharaReporters and candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 presidential election, Mr. Omowole Sowore, has been arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services(DSS).
Sahara Reporters which broke the news online said Sowore was arrested in the early hours of Saturday at about 1.2a.m by the operatives of DSS.
He was arrested at his residence.
Early this morning, at exactly 1.25am, Sowore posted a distress tweet .
DSS invades Sowore’s
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) August 3, 2019
An eyewitness confirmed his phone was forcefully taken from him .
According to a Twitter user his car was damaged in the process of arresting him .
This is the aftermath of what the armed DSS did to the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement @YeleSowore Car during his arrest overnight. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty. #RevolutionNow #FreeSowore pic.twitter.com/h4AnTYoeh6
— Towolawi Jamiu (@jharmo) August 3, 2019
