Chido Onumah, coordinator of
African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), says the
Department of State Services (DSS) queried him on why he was carrying a
Nigerian passport despite being a “Biafran.”
Onumah said this while narrating
his encounter with the DSS operatives on Sunday.
Nigerianeye had reported how the
operatives detained the journalist at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Abuja,
Abuja, upon his arrival from Europe.
He spent at least four hours in
their custody before he was freed around 10pm.
He said: “A DSS officer said they
had intel (likely from people who were with me on the Lufthansa flight from
Frankfurt to Abuja) that I had come into the country to join some people
planning to cause disaffection.
“That since I am a Biafran, why
should I carry a Nigerian passport. I told them I am a Nigerian and that’s why
I have a Nigerian passport; that there is no country called Biafra, therefore,
I couldn’t possibly hold a Biafran passport.
“He replied: ‘But that is not
what is written on your T-shirt.’ When I replied that the inscription is the
title of a book, (and that the book was available on Amazon and bookshops in
the country) another officer said “there is a difference between the book and
the T-shirt’.”
He added that the DSS operatives
requested for his T-shirt and “a “commitment” that I won’t do anything that
would cause ethic, religious or political tension in the country.”
Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesman,
had earlier confirmed Onumah’s shirt got the service’ attention.
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