The Department of State Services (DSS) has reaveled the reason for arresting an investigative journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, early on Sunday.
Thecapital had earlier reported that DSS operatives arrested Soyinka, who is the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at about 5.40 a.m. on Sunday.
Soyinka was arrested shortly after he arrived in Nigeria via a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom. …CONTINUE READING
The spokesperson for DSS, Peter Ifunnaya, in a chat with Premium Times, disclosed that the DSS “intercepted” the journalist based on a request from another government agency.
He wrote in a chat with the platfrom, “We are working on Adejuwon Soyinka’s case.”
But he did not provide the identity of the agency on whose behalf, he said, the arrest was carried out.
Soyinka confirmed his release in a message sent to Premium Times, stating that he was freed from detention around 1:26 p.m. on Sunday.
The text reads, “I have just been released by the DSS (SSS) in Lagos. They are holding on to my passport, though. I am in an Uber ride ordered for me by the Deputy Director of DSS in Lagos.”
