NLC President, Ajaero Can’t Be Allowed To Leave Nigeria Over Pending Terrorism Financing Allegations – Ex-DSS Director

Dennis Amachree, a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), has claimed that the Nigeria Labour Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, would not be allowed to travel outside the country because of pending terrorist financing allegations against him.

Amachree made this known on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday while reacting to the arrest of Ajaero by the personnel of the DSS on Monday.

The NLC President was arrested by the DSS while on his way to the United Kingdom on the invitation of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Britain.

But he was released late Monday night after hours-long detention and pressure from civil societies and concerned Nigerians.

Reacting, the former DSS Director said: “There is an ongoing investigation, he (Ajaero) cannot leave the country. Let him remain in the country whilst investigations are going on.

“For terrorism financing which he (Ajaero) has been accused of, and which is under investigation, he cannot leave the country. Even if he is leaving the country, where is he going?”

“Remember, the main man (Andrew Wynne or Andrew Povey) that was suspected of financing terrorism is his tenant and I don’t think Ajaero is going to go to London without talking to that person because he is in London running his mouth,” Amachree added.

The former security operatives explained that the person of Ajaero is different from the office of the NLC President, which he currently occupies.

He said Ajaero is being investigated in his personal capacity and not in his official capacity as NLC President.

Amachree said Ajaero must have been on the watch list of security agencies for him to be stopped and picked up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday morning.

The former DSS director alleged that the labour leader could have fled Nigeria like wanted Binance executive Nadeem Anjarwalla if allowed to travel to the UK on Monday.

“Joe Ajaero has a terrorism case to answer and he is not above the law,” he said, adding that intelligence agencies in Nigeria should be doing everything to extradite Wynne from Britain to Nigeria.