Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Ita Ekpeyong, Monday denied the arrest of a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
He told State House correspondents that reports which claimed Ezekwesili was arrested were false, wondering how someone, who is currently in London, could have been arrested.
Probed further, the DG quipped: “Did she tell you she was arrested? Did you see her?
“She is currently in London and that shows you that she was not arrested. We did not arrest her,”
Ezekwesili, who is one of the arrowheads of the BringBackOurGirls campaign, was briefly delayed but released by SSS operatives as she tried to travel to London for a scheduled engagement.
The finance expert had tweeted Monday morning that she was heading to London to appear on the BBC Hardtalk programme but was prevented from boarding her flight.
The officers confiscated her travelling documents, she said.
Ezekwesili has been consistently pressurising the Nigerian government to act more decisively in rescuing the over 200 schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014.
He told State House correspondents that reports which claimed Ezekwesili was arrested were false, wondering how someone, who is currently in London, could have been arrested.
Probed further, the DG quipped: “Did she tell you she was arrested? Did you see her?
“She is currently in London and that shows you that she was not arrested. We did not arrest her,”
Ezekwesili, who is one of the arrowheads of the BringBackOurGirls campaign, was briefly delayed but released by SSS operatives as she tried to travel to London for a scheduled engagement.
The finance expert had tweeted Monday morning that she was heading to London to appear on the BBC Hardtalk programme but was prevented from boarding her flight.
The officers confiscated her travelling documents, she said.
Ezekwesili has been consistently pressurising the Nigerian government to act more decisively in rescuing the over 200 schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014.
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