Adejuwon Soyinka, an award-winning investigative journalist, recently acquired his passport from the Department of State Services (DSS).
On Friday, Soyinka picked up his passport after being brought to the DSS office in Ikoyi, Lagos, by Human Rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong.
The West Africa Regional Editor of The Conversation Africa was arrested Sunday at Muritala Muhammed International Airport.
He was detained and interrogated for almost eight hours at the DSS Airport Command and the agency’s Ikoyi office.
Soyinka was later released while his passport was withheld.
After his release, Soyinka told our correspondent that the DSS didn’t prefer any allegations against him.
He added that his name was placed on the service watchlist at the request of an unnamed government agency.
But Effiong, on Friday, stated that after Soyinka got his passport back, the DSS operatives blamed his arrest and detention on possible mistaken identity.
He said, “I went with Soyinka to retrieve his passport today. The secret police’s decision to blame the whole incident on possible mistaken identity did not come to me as a surprise.”
