Breaking: Why We Arrested, Detained Nigerian Journalist Adejuwon Soyinka – DS
Eagle’s Sight News reports that the Department of State Services (DSS) has provided more details for over the arrest of an investigative journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka on Sunday.
The recent update followed the arrest of Mr Adejuwon Soyinka at the early hour of Sunday.Several online news outlets confirmed .
Soyinka, the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa was intercepted and arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at about 5.40 a.m after he arrived in Nigeria via a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom.
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. Naijanews confirmed.
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.
