Sahara Reporters’ publisher Sowore arrested by DSS
By Meletus EZE
The Convener of RevolutionNow protest, publisher of Sahara Reporters and Presidential aspirant of African Action Congress (AAC) at the 2019 elections, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested by the officers of the Department of Security Services (DSS). The arrest occurred shortly after midnight on Saturday.
Mr. Sowore was coordinating a national protest against the government of Buhari over the maladministration and insecurity in the country. He had promised to “shutdown” the country on the day of the protest – which he claims would hold simultaneously across the cities of the country. The nationwide protest is to hold August 5 (Monday). The coordinators of the RevolutionNow protest claim to have already gotten twenty one (21) cities in Nigeria to sign up for the protest. And the social media had been awash with video recordings by notable Nigerian musicians have come out in support of the protest.
It is believed Sowore’s arrest may be connected to his planned protest. Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am just before his phone was confiscated from him.
Sowore’s arrest comes amidst increasing spate of killings of Christian clerics in the south east and abduction of pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God by Fulani Herdsmen. The killings and abductions also come after the killing of a daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader by suspected Fulani Herdsmen. These latest occurrences follow the rejection of RUGA by mainly the southern regions of Nigeria.
