Former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has stated that labor leader Joe Ajaero is under investigation for alleged terrorism financing and related offenses and should not be permitted to leave Nigeria.
“There is an ongoing investigation, he (Ajaero) cannot leave the country,” Amachree said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme 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.
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The ex-DSS director clarified that Joe Ajaero, as an individual, is distinct from his role as the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). He noted that Ajaero is being investigated in his personal capacity, not in his position as NLC president.
Amachree suggested that Ajaero must have been on a security watch list, which led to his being stopped and detained at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday morning.
He further alleged that if Ajaero had been allowed to travel to the United Kingdom on Monday, he might have fled Nigeria, similar to the wanted Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla.
“Joe Ajaero has a terrorism case to answer and he is not above the law,” he said, adding that the intelligence agencies in Nigeria should be doing everything to repatriate Wynne from Britain to Nigeria.
The secret police arrested Ajaero on Monday morning and released him around midnight.
Ajaero was en route to the United Kingdom for a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event when he was detained at the Abuja airport.
The labor leader explained that, although he was held by the DSS, police officers also questioned him at the DSS office in Abuja regarding the #EndBadGovernance protests that took place nationwide in August.
Ajaero said he was interrogated about alleged terrorism financing involving Wynne, who has been declared wanted by the police. Both Ajaero and Wynne have denied all the allegations made against them by security agencies.
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