Facts have emerged as to how the
Russian Federal Security Service wrongly blacklisted a Nigerian
community-rights activist, Barr. Natasha Akpoti for her stance on the Revival
of the Ajaokuta Steel Company.
Akpoti, daughter of a Nigerian
father from Kogi State and a Ukrainian mother has been in the forefront of
advocacy for the diversification of the economy through the revival of the
solid minerals sector.
Her major campaign had been for the completion of the
Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi state. Having written several petitions to local
and international agencies, Akpoti had contacted an ally in Russia to trace the
original company that built Ajaokuta Steel Complex.
The decision to contact the
original Russian company that built the steel complex was only the beginning of
her problems as the company allegedly showed documents that exposed the
complicity of some powerful Nigerian officials, politicians and businessmen
whose sole ambition is to buy the steel complex and trade off its components.
Akpoti, who was on Tuesday “rendered clean” by the Russian security services,
said some of those influential Nigerians were behind her ordeal. [Vanguard]
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