DSS Releases Adejuwon Soyinka’s International Passport
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Friday, August 30, 2024 released the seized international passport of multiple-award winning investigative journalist, Mr Adejuwon Soyinka to him.
The DSS blamed the arrest of Soyinka at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos shortly on arrival to the country from a foreign trip on “possible mistaken identity.”
Inibehe Effiong, human rights activist and lawyer, who accompanied Soyinka on a visit to the DSS office in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday to retrieve the seized passport, said the DSS’ decision to blame the whole episode on possible mistaken identity did not come to him as a surprise.
Soyinka, a two-time Emmy nominated investigative journalist and West Africa Regional Editor at The Conversation Africa, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International airport, shortly after arriving on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London, UK on Sunday, August 25, 2024.
Soyinka, who was the pioneer editor of the BBC Pidgin Service was subsequently held and interrogated for about 8 hours before he was released on bail on self-recognizance.
