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Multiple shots fired at #FreeSowore protest + VIDEO

Sound of gunshots was heard at a #FreeSowore protest held in Abuja. In a video, journalists and protesters were seen running as multiple shots were…

Sound of gunshots was heard at a #FreeSowore protest held in Abuja.

In a video, journalists and protesters were seen running as multiple shots were fired.

It is not yet clear if anybody was hurt.

The video also showed that the gunshots came after a security operative threw tear-gas at the protesters who were seated on the ground while chanting “Kill all of us”

It also showed journalists running with their cameras.

A few days earlier, the Department of State Services (DSS) on Saturday says no person has turned up to take delivery of  Omoyele Sowore since a court order was received for his release.

Dr. Peter Afunanya, the Public Relations’ Officer of the Service, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja

He said the clarification was necessary for reasons of accountability adding that the service had received the court order for his release.

Read more: No surety turned up to receive Sowore – DSS 

Sowore, who is a former presidential candidate of the in the February 23 presidential election, is the convener of #RevolutionNow

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