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JUST IN: DSS Releases Sowore, Returns His Passport After Arrest In Lagos

Omoyele Sowore, Human Rights Activist and presidenial candidate of the African Action Congress (ACC) in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, has been released by the Department of State Service (DSS).

His seized International Passport was also released to him by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Lagos Airport.

It was learnt on Sunday that following Sowore’s detention by the Immigration Service at the airport over a watchlist of the secret police, Department of State Service (DSS), it seized his passport and contacted the DSS.

Read Also: BREAKING: DSS Arrests Sowore on Return to Nigeria

It held the activist while it contacted the DSS and awaited ‘an order from above’.

“I have just been released. My passport and everything have been returned to me,” Sowore said while confirming his release.

Meanwhile, some members of the Take It Back Movement and other activists had besieged the airport to await the activist’s return to the country.

Sowore had been with his family in the United States.

Read Also: DSS releases NLC president, Ajaero

His flight left the Washington Dulles International Airport at 6.14 EDT and arrived in Lagos at around 9.43 WAT.

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