Constant harassment by DSS can’t keep me away from Nigeria –Okey Ndibe, US-based Nigerian novelist
Published 7 February 2021
American-based Nigerian scholar and novelist, Prof Okey Ndibe, tells OLADIMEJI RAMON that the Department of State Services has harassed him on his way in and out of Nigeria for 10 years
You recently wrote on your Facebook page about being stopped at the Lagos airport by DSS agents, while returning to the US. Can you narrate that encounter to us?
First, let me go to the history of such encounters as this sort of harassment started in January of 2011. So, we’re talking of 10 years now! I was first tipped off in late 2008 that the (late President) Umaru Musa Yar’Adua regime had put me on a list of enemies of the state. Despite that information, I intended to visit Nigeria in December of that year, but some family members and friends dissuaded me. After Yar’Adua’s death in 2010, his successor, Goodluck Jonathan, flew to Washington, DC on a state vi