Olaitan’s
Murder: SSS Arrests Edo-based Environmentalist
An environmental rights activist and Executive Director of
African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Mr. David
Ugolor, has been arrested by the State Security Service (SSS).
AS IT HAPPENS learnt that he was picked at
about 2.05pm on Friday in connection with the assassination of the Private
Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, the late Mr. Olaitan
Oyerinde.
But ANEEJ in a statement by its
Programme/Policy Officer, Mr. Innocent Edemhanria, said Ugolor is a victim of
frame-up by some highly-placed persons and insisted that he remains innocent of
the accusation against him.
In his words: “The security operatives which
numbered over 10 had picked him up from somewhere in town and brought him to
the office. They had ransacked his private home and office and took away some
items. Staff of the office had their cell phones taken away from them and
switched off for as long as the security men held them hostage which lasted for
about three hours.
“They later returned the phones at about
4.35pm before vacating the office premises. A staff of Centre for Social
Justice, Mr. Kingsley Nnajiaka, was at ANEEJ Secretariat then and was also held
hostage for the same period,” he said.
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