Former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, says labour leader Joe Ajaero is under investigation for supposed terrorism financing and related offences and shouldn’t leave Nigeria.
“There is an ongoing investigation, he (Ajaero) cannot leave the country,” Amachree said on a television show on Tuesday. “Let him remain in the country whilst investigations are going on.”
“For terrorism financing which he (Ajaero) has been accused of, and which is under investigation, he cannot leave the country. Even if he is leaving the country, where is he going?
“Remember, the main man (Andrew Wynne) that was suspected of financing terrorism is his tenant and I don’t think Ajaero is going to go to London without talking to that person because he is in London running his mouth,” Amachree said.
The ex-DSS chief said the person of Ajaero is not the same as the office of the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which he currently occupies. He said Ajaero is being investigated on a personal note and not as the NLC chief.
Amachree said Ajaero must have been on the watch list of security agencies for him to be stopped and apprehended at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday morning.
The former DSS chief asserted that the labour leader might have fled Nigeria like wanted Binance executive Nadeem Anjarwalla if permitted to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) on Monday.
“Joe Ajaero has a terrorism case to answer, and he is not above the law,” he said, adding that the intelligence agencies in Nigeria ought to be doing everything to repatriate Wynne from Britain to Nigeria.
The secret police apprehended Ajaero on Monday morning and released him around midnight.
The labour leader was en route to the United Kingdom (UK) on Monday for a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event when he was apprehended at Abuja airport.
The labour leader said however he was confined by the DSS, some police officers likewise came around to grill him at the DSS office in Abuja over the #EndBadGovernance nationwide dissent which took place in August.
Ajaero said he was quizzed over supposed terrorism funding involving Wynne, who has been proclaimed wanted by the police. Both Ajaero and Wynne denied claims levelled against them by security agencies.
