The publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested by men of the Department of State Security, DSS.

According to reports by Sahara Reporters, Omoyele was arrested in his apartment in the early hours of today Saturday August 3rd. The DSS invaded his apartment with four trucks, seizing his phones and other electronic gadgets. His whereabouts is currently unknown.

Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am with an eyewitness confirming that his phone was forcefully taken from him. His tweet reads

” DSS invades Sowore’s”.

DSS invades Sowore’s

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) August 3, 2019

The news website added that its publisher’s arrest was not unconnected to #RevolutionNow, a series of planned protests against bad governance in the country scheduled for August 5, 2019.