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  • Just In: DSS arrests Omoyele Sowore

    The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 presidential election, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services.

    Sowore human rights activist and founder of online news agency Sahara Reporters was arrested Saturday morning at his home.

    Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25am which says “DSS invades Sowore’s”.

    Read Also: AAC reaffirms Sowore as national chairman, expels Ezenwa

    His arrest by the DSS could be as a result of his plans to mobilised people in Lagos and many parts of the country for a revolution protest tagged ‘Days of Rage’ to demand a better Nigeria.

    The African Action Congress (AAC) had declared 5th August for the commencement of revolution protest tagged ‘Days of Rage’ across the country to demand a better Nigeria.

    Omoyele Sowore, disclosed recently in Abuja at the end of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting that the protest would be sustained until the country is put on the right path of honour where justice prevails.

  • Katsina under siege by armed robbers, bandits – Masari

     

    The Katsina State Government on Wednesday lamented that the state was under siege by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers.

    Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State said this during the opening ceremony of an extra-ordinary security meeting in katsina.

    “The citizens are on daily basis being harassed by bandits and kidnappers that are on rampage in the state.

    “The Katsina Government organised this one-day joint security and stakeholders meeting to proffer solutions to the state’s current insecurity challenge.

    “Our state is currently under serious siege by armed robbers, kidnappers and armed bandits who arrest rural people at the grassroots at will and demand ransom, which if not paid, they kill their victims.

    “The people of Katsina in the 34 local governments now sleep with one eye closed and the other opened.

    Read Also: Katsina APC rep defects to PDP

    “Our state is in a dangerous situation. Travelers are afraid of being stopped on the highway and arrested by kidnappers who demand ransom,” Masari said.

    Masari said the situation was so bad that some thieves stole some electrical equipment near the Government House at the Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Katsina.

    “I am calling on all stakeholders to come out with solutions that will assist the security agencies to discharge their duties,” he said

    The governor urged the stakeholders not hide any criminal, and reveal vital information about criminals during the meeting.

    “This time around, we should be able to make sacrifices that will make our state safe and will allow people to go about their lawful business without fear of being arrested by armed bandits and kidnappers.

    Soldiers, the Police, Department of Security Service (DSS) and other security outfits and traditional rulers attended the meeting.

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  • NDDC board: Senate rejects nomination of two members

    NDDC board: Senate rejects nomination of two members

    …Faults arrest, detention of Judges

    The Senate on Tuesday rejected nominations of two Olatokunbo Ajasin (Ondo) and Hon Donatus Enyinna (Abia) as board members of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

    Also, the Senate faulted the arrest, detention of Judges by the Department of Security Service (DSS) following adoption of a motion.

    Details shortly…

  • Kanu’s trial: MASSOB berates masking of witnesses

    Kanu’s trial: MASSOB berates masking of witnesses

    Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) faction led by Uchenna Madu has berated that masking of prosecution witnesses by the Department of Security Service (DSS) in the trial of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

    The group on Wednesday described the process as an act of cowardice on the part of the Federal Government and the DSS.

    In a statement, comrade Uchenna Madu stated that the insistence of the Federal Government through the DSS to hide the identity of their witnesses was not only an act of cowardice, but a sign of not being serious and unsteadiness.

    According to him, the prosecution was insisting on masked witnesses because they had no genuine witnesses as the ones they earlier had been exposed and it now behooves on the prosecution to use personnel of DSS who would appear with Igbo names as witnesses, to create the negative impression that Ndigbo are against Kanu.

    “Those the DSS contracted to come and give false witness against Kanu, on finding the truth, declined to come forward. To accomplish their evil plans, they have decided to use their personnel who would bear Igbo names to come and give witness against Kanu, to create the impression that he (Kanu) is not liked by Ndigbo and that is why they want to cover their faces in court and at the end, they will cover their faces in shame,” he said.

    The MASSOB leader said it was absurd for the DSS to allege that some pro Biafra agitators were plotting to invade the court and forcefully free the IPOB leader.

    He wondered how the DSS has suddenly become confused and described the reason that IPOB and MASSOB members would invade a courtroom located at the 3rd floor of the Federal High Court building and manned by heavily armed security operatives as frivolous. 

    He said that although the arrest and detention of Kanu have revived the consciousness of Biafra to a higher dimension and stated that the group absolute faith in God that Kanu would soon be set free at last.

    While calling on all pro-Biafra groups to rally round Kanu, Madu warned that the continued detention of Kanu will “bring more devastating diplomatic doom for Nigeria now and in the future.”