By SaharaReporters, New York

Saharareporters just learnt minutes ago that the SSS at MMIA in Lagos arrested Okey
Ndibe and detained, a columnist and US professor.
Mr. Ndibe arrived on Turkish airlines at 9:31 PM (Nigerian Time). An Immigration
officer handed his passport to an State Security Service (SSS) who instructed him to
get his luggage and come with them. One SSS officer named "Mr. George" told Mr.
Ndibe his supervisor needed to see him on the first floor at room 1062.
After being held for several hours he was released after he was made to give his
Nigerian address, but just before he was released, his Nigerian passport was seized by
the agency. They requested that he appears before the Kingsway Road office of the
agency on Monday to interview with their director for further action.
Okey Ndibe is a US professor and a columnist for the SUN newspaper as well as
several websites including SaharaReporters.com. He is also a professor of English
Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and Brown University in Rhode Island.

Source: www.saharareporters.com/news-page/jonathan-government-arrests-us-based-newspaper-columnist-okey-ndibe-murtala-mohammed-airpo


“We Have Been Here Before”- Prof. Wole Soyinka On Okey Ndibe's Arrest And Seizure Of Passport.

Election neurosis has clearly gripped a most insensitive and inept Security apparatus.
Inept because the harassment of a journalist is the very worst form of service that can
be rendered to their paymasters in a democracy. I presume of course that we are not
only under democratic governance but are actually engaged in a process that is
supposed to strengthen that condition.
All the signs indicate that the nation is being deceived, and that another extravagant
sham is being presented to the world. The action of a Security with regard to Okey
Ndibe will be taken as enjoying the full support of the government unless his
passport is immediately returned and a severe reprimand meted out to the agency
responsible for this violation of the most elementary rights of its citizens. Not only
that, they must be instructed that it must never happen again.
The nation is urged to remain vigilant and pro-active in the protection of their citizen
rights. These, let us remind ourselves, include freedom of expression, freedom to
associate, and freedom of movement. The infringement of any one of these, no
matter who is the victim, becomes the collective responsibility of all and must be
sternly addressed. A movement towards fascism begins with seemingly innocuous
violations. The signs are increasingly ominous but we have been here before.

WOLE SOYINKA
Convener, CITIZEN FORUM
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this is another way to silence press people. by arresting and intimidating them. i want to beleive that Goodluck is not aware of this , because this is not good for our polity going by what Jonathan is trying to do , to give this country a facelift.
these SSS what is their function in this country ? they ve been here and all these atrocities have been taking place. Bola ige A.K.Dikibo died under their nose. just to mention but a few. i feel government uses the SSS service to silence seemly opposition.
speak up nigerians.

^^^ yeah right, U say goodluck is not aware of the jornalists arrest abi? Yet me and u know about it and we dont have press secretaries! I tot i was supposed to be the other way round. By the way i thought goody was the nations cheif security officer, yet he's left in limbo. Id say its either he is still seen as the dull and powerless leader he has always been or he is secretly involved. Abeg bros above wake up from that silly illusion. gooddy is a screw up*

the nigeria government have block access to million of nigerian to travel to nigeria according to the nigeria community abroad.

So if you are not lucky like some of us to have a passport, you cant return back to nigeria.