DSS re-arrests journalist for supporting Sowore on Facebook.

Barely 24 hours after releasing him, the Department of State Services on Wednesday arrested a former Politics Editor with Daily Trust, Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, in Kaduna State.

Dan-Halilu was arrested on Sunday for supporting the ‘Revolution Now’ movement led by Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore.

A source close to the journalist said, “Dan-Halilu was arrested on Sunday and then released on Tuesday after being given a stern warning. However, on Wednesday morning, the DSS guys came again, saying they had been given orders from Abuja to detain him again.”

The Spokesman for the DSS, Peter Afunnaya, told our correspondent on the telephone, that he was not aware of the arrest but promised to find out and give a response later.

Dan-Halilu had in a post on Facebook lamented the spate of killings, the high rate of poverty; the decision of Buhari to appoint persons with questionable character as ministers and the inability of the government to satisfactorily account for the manner in which the recovered $320 Abacha loot was spent amongst  others. www.donwatrick.blogspot.comit