Nigeria's Secret Police Releases US-based Author Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe, the Nigerian author and critic who was taken in for questioning upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Saturday by officers of the State Security Service (SSS), has been released.

"I told the SSS that it's a shame a country that rolls out the red carpet for criminals would harass a writer who wages war on corruption and the corrupt," said, Ndibe, who has lived in the United States since 1998 and taught in a number of universities.

The watchlist by which the SSS has been arresting Ndibe is thought to have been first developed by the government of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua which was angry about criticism of the flawed election that brought it to power and several leaks regarding his state of health.

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