Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday described the arrest of human rights activists Omoyele Sowore as a “terrorist midnight arrest.”
Egbemavoicenews had reported earlier that Sowore, a pro-democracy activist posted a tweet on his arrest at 1:25 am on Saturday, August 3 . Narrating his arrest in a social media post, Sowore’s driver, who refused to disclose his identity, said his principal was picked up in a “Gestapo manner” by the DSS . According to the driver, “At around past 1 am , 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. “They started forcing their way in like armed robbers. But I knew they were DSS men, knowing fully well the attention RevolutionNow has garnered. Sowore wanted to open at first but I immediately told him who they are. He retreated and like magic, he was not in the room when they forced their way in- 8 of them. “That was when he managed to tweet. By this time, I had been beaten and handcuffed....