Human rights activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has reviewed his travails occasioned by his activism and concluded that he had been arrested more times during democratic dispensation than under military rule.
The Publisher of SaharaReporters made this assertion on Friday when he featured on: “Inside Sources,” a programme on Channels Television.
Sowore recalled that he was arrested only twice during the military era, which he said was far fewer than his experiences under the current democratic dispensation.
“I have suffered more arrests in 2025 than I did between 1989 and 1996, when I graduated from university,” he said, adding: “I was arrested by the DSS once, even though we fought the military, maybe twice.
“When I was at the University of Lagos, I was abducted and detained for about two weeks.
“Later, during my NYSC in Yola, I was arrested and held for a week without a court order.
“But since civilian rule began, I have spent months in detention—I spent five months in DSS custody and was even abducted from a courtroom under democracy.”
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress also said that he faced about nine ongoing court cases filed against him by the federal government and the police.
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