MOST URGENT: NIGERIAN DIPLOMAT, DR. AJAYI KIDNAPPED IN VENEZEULA!
At press time, we are yet to receive the full details but we learnt from a reliable source in Caracas that Dr. Olarotimi Ajayi, a diplomat with the Nigerian Embassy in Venezuela has been detained by immigration authorities in that country on his return from United States of America where he had gone to sit for diplomatic examination.
A family member who put a telephone call to our office informed us that he was detained on arrival from United State of America via United Kingdom on 20th July 2012 and he is being threatened with deportation back to Nigeria without being allowed to see his family who are still in Caracas.
The press statement says that Dr. Ajayi is being held in held incommunicado at the airport. First he was kept for hours without being informed while he was detained; according to the information, the Venezuelan immigration officers were not friendly to him but after hours of detention; he was moved from the airport to headquarters of the National Intelligence where they finger printed him and took photographs of his diplomatic passport. According to the report; he was locked up for the night and till this moment, he is still been held.
At the National Intelligence, the officers are friendly to him and he learnt that there was an attempt to have him kidnapped but they intervened. How true that is needed to be ascertained.
Till the moment of writing this press statement, no one has asked him any question on why he has been detained.
Today being 21st of July; two officials of the National Intelligence came to ask him questions on his recent visit to America where he had gone to sit for examination.
The Voice.com is informed that his telephones are blocked so he cannot call or receive any phone calls even from his family.
A source from Abuja informed us that his ordeal may not be unconnected with his conflict with his boss, Ambassador Felix Oboro in Caracas. The person alleged that the ambassador may be behind Dr. Ajayi detention and ordeal.
The informant said that Ambassador Oboro claims that the Federal Government of Nigeria has placed a war alert on Dr. Ajayi in Nigeria. And that Dr. Ajayi 2012 examination promotion visit to America was to discuss Venezuela.