Adejuwon Soyinka

The Department of State Services (DSS) has spoken on why investigative journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, was arrested by its officials on Sunday.

TORI had earlier reported that DSS operatives arrested Soyinka, who is the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at about 5.40 a.m. on Sunday.

Soyinka was arrested shortly after he arrived in Nigeria via a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom.

The spokesperson for DSS, Peter Ifunnaya, in a chat with Premium Times, disclosed that the DSS “intercepted” the journalist based on a request from another government agency.

He wrote in a chat with the platfrom, “We are working on Adejuwon Soyinka’s case.”

But he did not provide the identity of the agency on whose behalf, he said, the arrest was carried out.