The Department of Security Services (DSS) has disclosed that Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the Publisher of Sahara Reporters and founder of the African Action Congress (AAC), was arrested by its operatives.
The DSS Spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, claimed that Sowore was arrested because he crossed the red line by calling for a revolution over alleged bad governance, insecurity and corruption, among other national issues.
The DSS spokesman at a media briefing in Abuja maintained that the proposed revolution march instigated by former Presidential Candidate of AAC will threaten public safety, peaceful co-existence and social harmony.
Hence, he added, the DSS, as a responsible security agency, will not just sit idly and watch any individual, group and their cohorts rise and threaten the peace, unity, and constitutionalism of the country.
Afunaya who described revolution as insurgency, revolt, insurrection and forceful takeover of government, added that Nigeria is not a Banana Republic and cannot be made one by the likes of Mr. Sowore.
He emphasized that DSS will not allow self-centered and violence-inclined persons to take law into their own hands.
“Though there is apprehension and anxiety among citizens already, we wish to assure friends of Nigeria, and other law-abiding citizens, that there will be no revolution of any kind come Monday, August 5, 2019.
“A democratically elected government is in charge, and we cannot allow any person or group to foment chaos or fan the ember of revolution,” he said.
Mr. Sowore, was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC)in the 2019 general election.
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The step taken by DSS is unconstitutional and infringes the right of Nigerians that wants to protest against bad governance.
Nigeria has tailed as a nation and need to renegotiate its existence. The component of Nigeria has to come together to dialogue on whether they want to continue being one country. After hundred years of amalgamation of the North and South by the colonial masters, it's time to renegotiate peaceful coexistence or disintegration. The Middle Belt do no longer want to be North any longer. We now have North, Middle Belt, South East, South West and South South.
We cannot imprison or fight ideology rather you need to come with superior argument. The masses are by virtue of Section ,36 of the 1999 Constitution entitle to protest.
The arrest and detention of Sowore is illegal and completely irrational.
We don't need to make defective and unlawful comments on national issues because we have to say something. Except one doesn't understand the word revolution that's when he or she will be calling it peaceful protest. Revolution means forcefull change of government which is war-like. If war should spring out now in the name of revolution, even sowore wouldn't be safe. So let's be civil, On peaceful protest I stand or occupation of public facilities. The DSS got it right. Let's call a Spade a Spade.