DSS arrests, whisks away Omoyele Sowore from MMIA Lagos

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the SaharaReporters publisher and  convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

Sowore was arrested at the airport on Sunday immediately upon his arrival in Nigeria.

Sowore had been with his family in the United States.

His flight left the Washington Dulles International Airport at 6.14 EDT and arrived in Lagos at around 9.43 WAT.

There had been reports that there was a  DSS memo ordering the arrest of Sowore upon his arrival in the country.

Sources said the Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the 2019 and 2023 general elections was picked up due to the ongoing probe into the #endbadgovernment protests across the country.

The government had alleged that the organisers of the protests hacked into official data bases, stealing documents, among others.