Dennis Amachree, a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), has stated that labor leader Joe Ajaero is currently under investigation for alleged terrorism financing and related offenses.
As a result, Ajaero is not 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 former DSS director clarified that Joe Ajaero, while currently holding the position of President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is being investigated on a personal basis rather than in his official capacity.
Amachree noted that Ajaero’s appearance on the security agencies’ watch list was likely why he was stopped and detained at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday morning.
He further suggested that Ajaero might have attempted to flee the country, similar to the wanted Binance executive Nadeem Anjarwalla, if he had been permitted to travel to the United Kingdom that day.
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“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 detained Ajaero on Monday morning and released him around midnight.
He was en route to the United Kingdom for a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event when he was arrested at Abuja airport.
During his detention, Ajaero reported that, in addition to being held by the DSS, police officers also questioned him at the DSS office in Abuja about the #EndBadGovernance protests that occurred in August.
Ajaero stated that he was interrogated regarding alleged terrorism financing connected to Wynne, who is currently wanted by the police. Both Ajaero and Wynne have denied all allegations made by the security agencies.
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