The Nigeria High Commission in London has debunked an Internet-based story that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was questioned by the London Metropolitan Police during his recent visit to the UK.
A statement signed by Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner to Britain, Amb. Dozie Nwanna, said the report posted on the Web had provoked ‘’wide public interest in Nigeria and abroad’’.
The statement, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said Obasanjo was in Britain between Oct. 17 and Oct. 22 and was accompanied on the visit by officials of the High Commission ‘’from beginning to the end of his visit’’.
It said due to his stature as a former Nigerian President who was traveling with a diplomatic passport, Obasanjo was technically a guest of the mission.
‘’Mission was, therefore, shocked at the muddle of claims, which were immediately recognised as untrue,’’ it said.
‘’The biggest of the lies in the article was, of course, the assertion that the former President had contact with the London Metropolitan Police during the visit.
‘’Mission can categorically state that he was never met by anyone from the police establishment of the UK during the visit.’’
(http://dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3635&Itemid=45)
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