#RevolutionNow convener and human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has uploaded a video of where he was detained last year following the nationwide protests that rocked the country last year.
Sowore who has repeatedly spoken against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was arrested on August 3, 2019, by operatives of the Nigerian State Security Service for alleged treason after calling for a protest against the present government.
He was freed on December 24, 2019, after Nigeria’s attorney general Abubakar Malami gave the order in a statement released in Abuja on Christmas Eve.
As he recalls how he was arrested exactly a year ago, Sowore took to Twitter and released a video of the interior of where he was held against his will, writing:
Exactly a year ago (August 3, 2019) Nigeria’s lawless Secret police abducted & kept me detained incommunicado in solitary confinement, I smuggled in a camera to film my cell. They wanted to gag me & stop others from standing up for what’s right & just, they failed.”
Exactly a year ago (August 3, 2019) Nigeria’s lawless Secret police abducted & kept me detained incommunicado in solitary confinement, I smuggled in a camera to film my cell. They wanted to gag me & stop others from standing up for what’s right & just, they failed #RevolutionNow pic.twitter.com/QB2vFY7e3W
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) August 3, 2020
