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Sowore was arrested astatine the airdrome connected Sunday instantly upon his accomplishment successful Nigeria.
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, astatine the Murtala Muhammed International Airport successful Lagos.
Sowore was arrested astatine the airdrome connected Sunday instantly upon his accomplishment successful Nigeria.
SaharaReporters earlier connected Sunday reported that members of the Take It Back Movement and different activists had besieged the airdrome to await the activist’s instrumentality to the country.
Sowore had been with his household successful the United States.
His formation near the Washington Dulles International Airport astatine 6.14 EDT and arrived successful Lagos astatine astir 9.43 WAT.
On Thursday, September 12, 2024, SaharaReporters exclusively reported that a DSS memo ordering the apprehension of the convener of Sowore upon his accomplishment successful Nigeria had leaked.
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Following the report, Sowore lambasted the DSS for issuing a directive for his apprehension connected his accomplishment successful Nigeria, disclosing that his volition was to instrumentality to the state ‘very soon’.
In a station connected his X relationship connected Thursday, Sowore said, “The existent administration, led by Tinubu, has demonstrated an upgraded inability to efficaciously way and apprehend coercion suspects, bandits, and kidnappers, portion the @officialEFCC has yet to apprehension erstwhile Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello.
“Meanwhile, the lawless @OfficialDSSNG has upgraded my presumption and sanction connected their “watchlist” for apprehension upon accomplishment successful Nigeria.”
“It is imperative to recognise that our state Nigeria requires salvation and our radical request liberation, which volition necessitate sizeable effort. I mean to instrumentality location shortly, I mean precise soon," helium said.
Earlier successful September, SaharaReporters reported that Nigeria’s concealed police, DSS, had instructed airdrome information and migration authorities to intercept and detain Sowore upon his accomplishment successful Nigeria.
It was learnt that the directive, issued by the recently appointed DSS Director General, Adeola Ajayi, stemmed from Sowore's relation successful the caller 10-day #EndBadGovernance protests.
The memo obtained by SaharaReporters past Thursday read, “DSE: 94/6203 X WATCHLIST ACTION X EYE AM DIRECTED TO INFO Y OURS THAT X THE DGSS HAS APPROVED THE UPGRADING OF WLA
“'B' (REPORT ARRIVAL AND DESTINATION BY TELEPHONE IMMEDIATE LY) TO WLA 'F' (DETAIN TRAVELER AND ESCORT WITH BAGGAGE TO NHSS) X VIDE DSE: 9A/6201 X AGAINST OMOYELE SOWORE X AN AC TIVIST/FOUNDER OF SAHARA REPORTERS INC. X AN ONLINE NEWS AGENCY X THIS IS FOR YOUR STRICT COMPLIANCE X PLEASE X.”
The memo was signed by Adeola D. Ali for NISEC NHSS.
Meanwhile, a trusted root astatine the Murtala Muhammed International Airport successful Lagos precocious revealed to SaharaReporters that Ajayi had included Sowore's sanction connected a information watchlist, citing his engagement successful the #EndBadGovernance protests and forthcoming October 1 objection arsenic justification.
“The caller DSS brag forwarded Sowore’s sanction to airdrome information for him to beryllium arrested whenever helium enters the country,” the root said.
During an interrogation connected September 4, 2024, with Cordelia Okpei connected "The Voice of the Peoples" programme, Sowore revealed startling information.
The quality rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner of the African Action Congress (AAC) confirmed that helium had received credible quality that his sanction had been submitted to airdrome information unit by the recently appointed DSS Director General.
According to Sowore, the directive mandates his contiguous apprehension upon accomplishment astatine the airport. Furthermore, Sowore criticised the caller DSS helmsman for prioritising governmental vendettas implicit addressing the pervasive insecurity that has brought Nigeria to its knees.
He stated, "We person drawn our adjacent protestation which is successful October. They called maine respective times. They person my sanction astatine the airport. I americium connected their watchlist arsenic I was told by respective people. So, they volition astir apt apprehension maine erstwhile I instrumentality to Nigeria but that volition not halt me. I volition spell to Nigeria whenever I privation to spell to Nigeria, it is my country. I don't person immoderate different state different than Nigeria.
"So we person to look these guys down. We person seen galore oppressors, bullies and tyrants successful our lifetime. But that is not the issue; the contented is that these radical person done much harm to the Nigerian civilian populace than they person done to anyplace else.
"So I don't cognize wherefore I would beryllium wasting my clip advising the caller guys determination who came to bash the bidding of the president. Even arsenic I americium speaking with you, the caller DSS feline transmitted to the airdrome yesterday my sanction again conscionable to refresh the representation of the information astatine the airdrome that if I travel into the country, I should beryllium arrested and brought to his office.”
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