Lagos State CID Arrests Sahara Reporters Publisher, Sowore

[caption id="attachment_15436" align="alignnone" width="640"]Omoyele Sowore, Sahara Reporters Publisher[/caption]

Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, has been picked up by police operatives attached to the Lagos State police command.

Sowore is in custody of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, for offences bothering on “criminal defamation and blackmail”.

THE WHISTLER learned that Mr. Sowore had published an alleged money laundry story on his platform, which indicted a U.K based Nigerian journalist, Lekan Fatodu, of assisting Nigerian politicians to move money out of the country.

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News of Sowore’s arrest was announced by Mr. Fatodu, via his Twitter handle.

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Fatodu, who initiated the arrest, claimed that Mr. Somore has been a threat to his life and career.

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“I just got Sowore Omoyele of Saharareporters arrested for criminal defamation and blackmail and threat to my life and career,” he said.

Confirming his arrest, Mr. Sowore took to his Facebook page to tell his side of the story.

“I was physically attacked today by a gang led by Lekan Fatodu… he assaulted me before police officers at Area “F” in Ikeja in Lagos,” he wrote on Facebook.

“After the police intervened soon as I was attacked by Lekan Fatodu and his friends in Lagos, we were taken to the CP’s office in Lagos.

“Turns out he was in on this, he pulled out a supposed petition written by Lekan from his hat after that he became very hostile towards me and ordered that we be driven to State CID, at Panti in Lagos.

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“It is very obvious that this was planned between Lekan Fatodu and the police. They offered him unbridled support as he continued attacking me in the presence of the police. I could have been I am familiar with this style of the Nigerian police. We are now being driven to Panti in Yaba res of Lagos,” Mr. Sowore wrote.

 

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