EXCLUSIVE: Leaked DSS Memo Confirms Secret Police’s Directive To Arrest Sowore Upon Arrival In Nigeria

A Department of State Services’ memo ordering the apprehension of the convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, has been exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters.

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 connected Thursday reads, “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 revealed to SaharaReporters past Wednesday 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.

This improvement has sparked concerns astir imaginable infringement connected Sowore's rights to state of look and movement.

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.”

“So, does that look to you arsenic idiosyncratic that is serious?" helium asked.

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