Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has been detained by the police.
According to her tweet on Tuesday morning, the former Minister of Education and Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, Co-convener, is currently being detained in Abuja on the order of the president of Nigeria, Buhari.
She wrote, “President @MBuhari at your instruction, the IG of @PoliceNG continues to detain me and have arrested some of our members
“President @Mbuhari , the police officers deployed by IG of @PoliceNG is violating my freedom of movement by locking me in broad day light at the Unity Fountain.
“This is a democracy. Officer Tina Ishaya just again refused to let me out of their wall.
“The FG of President @MBuhari instructed the IG of @PoliceNG to detain me and other members of @bbog_nigeria here at the Unity Fountain.
“Police men and women have built an impregnable wall and locked me in. I have asked them more than 30 times to let me out and they refused.”