Nigerian human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore, has recounted his experience during his detention at the Departmenr for State Services DSS.
Sowore revealed this while speaking at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, the activist expressed his views on the Department of State Services (DSS) and certain issues in Nigeria.
He begins by mentioning his experience of staying with the DSS for five months and makes a somewhat humorous remark about DSS personnel watching the reality TV show “BB Naija” during his stay, which he perceives as a lack of productivity.
Speaking in a video posted by Sahara TV, Sowore shifted to broader issues in Nigeria, particularly focusing on the cost of petrol and the government’s plans for compressed natural gas (CNG) conversion for vehicles.
He questions the feasibility of such conversions when basic amenities like air conditioning in university lecture halls are not adequately provided.
According to him, “Most of you knew that I stayed with the DSS for five months in Abuja, and the DSS, I’m sure they’re here; there’s nothing they do other than watching BB Naija. Does that look like an organised…. All of them are here; some of them are following Tacha, and the other ones are following the other girls throughout my stay with them. And I say it publicly: there’s nothing in the DSS. There are floors at the DSS headquarters when you want to pass; I knew it, I found out, where there’s no camera, but they’ll plant the camera’s as if things are working. We are living in a country where people are saying, Oh, petrol is too expensive, we want to do what they call CNG conversion, we want to convert vehicles. A country where a university cannot provide air condition in the lecture hall, they want to compress gas to be using for vehicles that were using petrol before.
Is it possible? Have we not been here since morning? Common air conditioner in this room meant for maybe 200 people; the University of Ibadan cannot provide it.”
