A source within the Department of State Services, DSS, has responded to the arrest of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, President, Joe Ajaero.
According to Vanguard, In an interview, the source declined to comment directly on Ajaero’s arrest but requested that an official inquiry be sent to the secret police via email.
It was earlier reported that Ajaero was arrested by DSS on Monday morning at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. He was reportedly preparing to board a flight to the United Kingdom for an official assignment when the arrest occurred.
Reacting to the situation, the DSS source reiterated that there would be no comment at the moment, advising the correspondent to submit a formal request via the agency’s email.
DSS source said: “A DSS official who was contacted by our correspondent at 1:03 pm on Monday, said he had no comment on the arrest of Ajaero but requested our correspondent to send and official request for comment to the email address of the secret police.
“It will be recalled that the DSS last week decided to scale back on Media visibility and opted to concentrate on its core mandate of covert operations to enhance national security.
“The erstwhile director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Dr. Peter Afunanya was redeployed to continue his work elsewhere”.
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