DSS rearrests Omoyele Sowore

The Department of State Service, DSS, today re-arrested pro-democracy activist and convener of the Revolutionnow protest, Omoyele Sowore.

Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare  were re-arrested at the premises of the federal high court in Abuja, barely 12 hours after they were released from detention on the order of the court.

Armed operatives of the secret service swooped on the defendants after justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned their trial till February 11.