The driver of Omoyele Sowore,
convener of #RevolutionNow, has narrated how operatives of the Department of
State Services (DSS) arrested the activist.
Sowore had posted a tweet on his
arrest at 1:25am on Saturday.
In a social media post, the
driver, who refused to disclose his identity, said Sowore was picked up in a
“gestapo manner”.
“At around past 1am, the armed
men knocked on the door. I noticed immediately that these knocks were strange.
And didn’t open. I looked and I saw men armed to the teeth,” he wrote.
“That was when he managed to
tweet. By this time, I had been beaten and handcuffed. Phones were snatched
from me. An order to block all exits came from the leader when Sowore was not
found inside. He was later arrested at the gym in a gestapo manner and dragged
after a bit altercation.”
Narrating how he rushed to pick
Sowore’s car when the cuffs were off his hands, the driver said the security
operatives later threatened to shoot him for trying to prevent Sowore’s arrest.
“I quickly seized that opportunity
to drive his car (I drive him) to block their SIENNA and Hilux they came in.
They hit the Lexus Jeep like kidnappers would do to make way for themselves,”
he wrote.
I followed them immediately till
we got to CMD road around Ketu when one of them came down from the SIENNA and
corked his gun, threatening to shoot me. I had to escape at that point.”
Sowore, a presidential candidate
of the African Action Congress (AAC), had tweeted hours to his arrest that;
“All that is needed for a #Revolution is for the oppressed to choose a date
they desire for liberty, not subjected to the approval of the oppressor.”
Peter Afunanya, spokesman of the
DSS, did not immediately respond to message seeking updates on the arrest.
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