Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said that her detention on Tuesday was a violation of her rights.
Ezekwesili who is also the Co- convener of Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, said in her tweets that from all indications her detention was carried out on the order of President Muhammadu 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.”
The former minister, it would be recalled, had since early last year been canvassing through the Bring Back our Girls forum for President Buhari to expedite action in seeing to the release of the Chibok girls.
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The group which the former minister is the co-convener had on different occasions led rallies to the Presidency, National Assembly and Unity Fountain in Abuja in 2016 and 2017.
Apart from that she has on several occasions come hard on President Buhari describing his policies as archaic and the president as myopic.
She had also criticized the president for running the economy aground with obnoxious policies.
However, this is the first time the former minister has been detained by the Buhari government over what observers view as her criticism of the president especially on the issue of the Chibok girls.