{"id":22883,"date":"2019-08-28T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22883"},"modified":"2019-08-29T05:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:21:46","slug":"how-dss-arrested-former-editor-for-supporting-revolutionnow-and-better-life-for-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22883","title":{"rendered":"Why DSS Arrested Former Editor for Supporting #RevolutionNow and Better Life for Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19204&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Department of State Services (DSS), in the early hours of Monday in Kaduna arrested Mr. Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, a former Politics Editor with the Daily Trust newspaper for allegedly supporting the activities of RevolutionNow in a Facebook post.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was gathered that Operatives of DSS, stormed Dan-Halilu\u2019s residence located in Rigachikun, Kaduna State at about 2:00am on Monday and whisked him away.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dan-Halilu, who was a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari before and shortly after the 2015 elections was a communication specialist with USAID, Information Assistant at the US Embassy and a Regional Communication Specialist with Family Health.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dan-Halilu posted on his Facebook page that he endorsed and supported the activities of #RevolutionNow.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">His post reads: \u201cI feel I should share because it resonates with me. If resonates with you too, please share until all oppressed people of Nigeria get the message and domesticate it. This is #Not the Nigeria of My Dream.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSomebody asked me why we need a revolution now, this was my reply: The aim of the revolution is to challenge the uncommon hardship why we have 16m children on the street; challenge why we have become the poverty capital of the world; challenge why we have 20 persons with corrupt cases as federal legislators and would-be Ministers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe need to restructure the country. We need to put an end to trillions spent on electricity while we live in darkness and pay estimated bill for electricity and meters. Why do we have huge oil reserves but our refineries are dead and we are re-importing what we exported as crude oil?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt is time to ask why those in government travel abroad for medical care when they have left our hospitals dilapidated; why they send their children to school abroad when our children learn under mango trees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe are revolting against the continuing killings that have left 20,000 Nigerians dead while those in office move around under state paid security and do nothing. \u201cWe are revolting against because over a thousand Nigerians soldiers killed by Boko Haram have been secretly buried without identifiable graves, dignity or honour.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201c$16m was purportedly spent on mosquito nets but our children die daily from malaria. $320m Abacha loot was purportedly distributed to the poor. Where is the verifiable list? N500bn was purportedly distributed to the poor as so-called Trader-moni. Where is the verifiable list?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201c\u2026With divine grace, God gave us about 40 natural resources spread across the length and breadth of the country. No country on mother earth is as blessed! The persons destroying Nigeria in and out of government are less than 10,000.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFor how long will the 201 million of us be silent? Forever? It will be sheer stupidity and very unfair of us to be silent and bequeath today\u2019s sorry Nigeria to our children.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFor how long shall we continue to endure bad leadership from certificate forgers, election riggers, ritualists and yahoo politicians, hoping upon hope for a better tomorrow when things get worse by the day? We are too rich to be poor. We are too blessed to be a mockery of the world!!! No!!!<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19204&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services (DSS), in the early hours of Monday in Kaduna arrested Mr. Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, a former Politics Editor with the Daily Trust newspaper for allegedly supporting the activities of RevolutionNow in a Facebook post. It was gathered that Operatives of DSS, stormed Dan-Halilu\u2019s residence located in Rigachikun, Kaduna State at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5598,5575],"class_list":["post-22883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-ibrahim-dan-halilu","tag-revolutionnow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dss.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5X5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22888,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions\/22888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}