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DSS ‘didn’t arrest’ Sowore

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2 years ago

DSS Arrests Senator Over ‘False Intel’ Sent to Foreign Embassies

The Department of State Services (DSS) did not arrest politician Omoyele Sowore, a source close to the secret police said yesterday.

The source wondered why it was habitual for some online platforms to credit all actions taken by security agencies to the DSS without seeking confirmation.

“Sowore, who was on our watchlist, has been delisted. That is why those peddling false information should desist,” the source said.

Sowore, who contested last year’s presidential election, arrived at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos from the United States yesterday and was stopped briefly by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) officials before being allowed to go.

He posted his encounter with the NIS men on his X handle, saying: “I had just arrived in Nigeria from the U.S.A at MMIA in Lagos; upon reaching Nigerian Immigration, my passport was seized, and they told me they had orders to detain me.”

In another tweet shortly after, he wrote: “I have just been released by the Nigerian Immigration after a brief detention and my passport released back to me.”