Arrested UNILAG staff transferred to DSS custody (updated)
Oriwaye Adefolalu and Adekola Adetomiwa, leaders of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in the University of Lagos (UNILAG), are currently at the Shangisha office of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Lagos.
Operatives of the state criminal investigation department (SCID), Ikeja, had arrested Adefolalu in the wee hours of Thursday.
Adefolalu was reportedly taken to the Ikeja office of the SCID, where he reportedly met Adetomiwa, who had earlier been arrested.
The families of the union leaders had express concern over the refusal of the police to disclose their whereabouts.
But TheCable learnt on Friday that the unionists have been transferred to the secret police.
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, was unable to secure the release of the unionists on Thursday as he was told that “their detention was based on an order from above”.
Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, UNILAG vice-chancellor, has been accused of being responsible for their travail.
The institution’s convocation ceremony for the 2016/2017 academic session took place on Friday, after it had been postponed indefinitely, over lingering union crisis.
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