Mike Igaga, the father of 16-year-old Adeoluwa Igaga, has voiced deep concern over the detention of his son by the Department of State Services (DSS) for his involvement in discussions about the #EndBadGovernance protest.
In an interview with SaharaReporters, Mike Igaga recounted the events leading to his son's arrest. Adeoluwa, a first-year Computer Science student at the University of Ibadan, had called his father to discuss a planned protest at his school. Their conversation was intercepted by the DSS, leading to Adeoluwa's arrest. Mike Igaga emphasized that their discussion was a harmless father-son conversation about addressing issues at the university.
“I told my son on the phone that they could draw the attention of the Federal Government to the water issue in their school instead of just protesting on campus, especially as the same situation happened at the University of Benin,” Mike Igaga explained. “The boy is just 16 years old and is a minor. The DSS tapped our conversation and got him arrested through the Chief Security Officer of the University of Ibadan.”
According to sources, once it was established that Adeoluwa was a student at the University of Ibadan, the DSS contacted the university's Chief Security Officer (CSO) to invite Adeoluwa. “They did not tell Adeoluwa his offence at the office of the CSO. He was only told that the DSS needed to see him and that was how they detained him,” Mike Igaga said.
Adeoluwa, who is the son of Comrade Mike Igaga, a former speaker of the UI Students' Union, and cousin of the late NANS President Moses Oisakede, was arrested and handed over to the secret police by the university's security unit. Sources revealed that the DSS had been monitoring telephone conversations between Adeoluwa and his father during the recent UI electricity protest, where they discussed the planned national protest against hunger.
“The Abuja DSS sent the phone call they spied to Ibadan DSS to arrest the boy. Can you imagine that in a democracy? The part one student was then picked up by the school's CSO and handed over to the DSS," a source told SaharaReporters. "DSS is about to release the boy, but he's now writing a statement at the UI security unit. DSS told him to come back on Monday," another source added.
This incident follows a pattern of arrests by the DSS, who recently detained youths in Kaduna and Sokoto states over the nationwide protest.
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