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DSS arrest group leaders over alleged planned quit notice press conference in Kaduna

by Gabriel Use, Kaduna

A miled drama ensued in Kaduna as Chairman Board of Trustee (BoT) Coalition of Northern Group (CNG), Nastura Ashir Shariff and the National Coordinator, Balarabe Rufai were both picked up by men suspected to be secret Security personnel.

The reasons for their arrest in the afternoon of Thursday are however yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report, our reporter however scooped that the coalition allegedly planned to address press conference to give quit notice to certain ethnics nationality to leave the North.

The Coalition Spokesman Abdul-Azeez Suleiman and the Director Aminu Adams however told journalists that the duo were picked up on the road on their way from NAF Club Kaduna, venue of a botched press conference on the “security challenges” in the country, billed to be addressed by leaders of the coalition.

A statement from the coalition officials also stated that “We are still working to establish connection with them or trace where they are taken to. Both their phone lines have been unreachable for the past two hours.
“It may not be unconnected with a planned press briefing by the CNG at the NAF club Kaduna which was botched by the security.
“The Kaduna DSS director had called us earlier today and tried to threaten us against going ahead with the briefing. We stood our ground and insisted on our right to freedom of association and expression.
“A few minutes afterwards, we were called from the NAF Club and informed that they were ordered from above to refuse us the use of the Hall.

“We then went to tell the pressmen who were already gathered at the venue and told them of the development and asked them to disperse because we have suspended the briefing”, the coalition state.
They continue that “As we left the NAF Club and were driving along adjercent Nagogo road a hooded Peugeot car blocked the lead car which was conveying the two officials and ordered them into the Peugeot and sped off.
Journalists, were anxiously waiting at a new hide out venue at katsina road, in an isolated building when told that organizers of the press conference have been pick up by suspected security personnel.
The Director Aminu Adams also told journalists that the duo have been reportedly whisk away to Abuja immediately since they could not find them at kaduna police command headquarters and other places visited in search of picked leaders.

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