{"id":673,"date":"2024-08-30T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=673"},"modified":"2024-08-30T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:40:55","slug":"nlc-president-regains-freedom-debunks-terrorism-financing-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/nlc-president-regains-freedom-debunks-terrorism-financing-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC president regains freedom &#8230;&#8230;.debunks terrorism financing allegations\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By George Mgbeleke<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero on Wednesday in Abuja debunked\u00a0 allegations of terrorism financing levelled against him by the Nigeria Police.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ajaero was questioned by the Nigerian Police&#8217;s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) over allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The interrogation took place on August 20 at the Police headquarters, following an initial invitation on August 19. The session, which lasted less than 30 minutes, involved prominent human rights activists such as Femi Falana, SAN, Maxwell Opara, and Deji Adeyanju, along with officials from the Department of State Services (DSS) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The police inquiry centered on the Iva Valley Bookshop, located on the second floor of the Labour House, which was suspected of having links to the alleged criminal activities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Ajaero, however, asserted that neither he nor the NLC was connected to these claims. He described the relationship with the bookshop&#8217;s operator as purely landlord-tenant and denied any consultancy or communication between the suspect and the NLC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A source close to the situation told Vanguard that Ajaero was reportedly frustrated by the informal manner in which he was addressed during the interrogation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The source suggested that the police&#8217;s handling of the invitation was unorthodox and questioned their motives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the source,&#8221; despite the gravity of the accusations, the session was described as a brief and relatively informal discussion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero on Wednesday in Abuja debunked\u00a0 allegations of terrorism financing levelled against him by the Nigeria Police. Ajaero was questioned by the Nigerian Police&#8217;s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) over allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime. The interrogation took place on August 20 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[379,346,381,27,380],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-ajaero","tag-allegation","tag-nlcdetention","tag-police","tag-terrorism-financing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}