Operatives of the Department of State Services(DSS) have
reportedly arrested Chido Onumah, coordinator of African Centre for
Media & Information Literacy.
He arrived via a Lufthansa airline and was waiting for his
luggage at about 5:00 p.m. when SSS officials accosted him, the
associate who was at the airport to receive Mr Onumah told PREMIUM
TIMES.
It is believed that Mr Onumah, at about 5:00 p.m., was taken to
the SSS headquarters in Abuja.
Mr Onumah, author of We Are All Biafrans, is a regular columnist
and is an editorial board member of PREMIUM TIMES.
He has, using his writings and his civic whistleblowers’
network, called for good governance and anti-corruption in Nigeria.
He is also an advocate for the restructuring of the Nigerian
federation.
The SSS is yet to give any reason for Mr Onumah’s arrest.
Efforts to reach the SSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, were not
successful on Sunday evening. He did not pick calls to his
phone.
Onumah left Nigeria about three weeks ago to attend a
whistleblower conference in Scotland before proceeding to Spain,
where he defended his doctoral thesis.
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