We didn't Arrest Aregbesola's Son-Custom

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos Command of the Nigerian Customs Service said on Thursday that it did not arrest the son of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Kabiru, for alleged money laundering on May 12, 2015, as widely alleged by some persons. Some media reports had stated that Kabiru was detained by security officials at the MMIA on money laundering charges after he was supposedly caught with a huge amount of money. But the Acting Public Relations Officer, MMIA Command, NCS, Mr. Victor Ogagbo, told our correspondent on Thursday that the report was false and had since been refuted. Ogagbo explained that some people made enquiries regarding the said “arrest”, saying he had told them that the governor’s son was not arrested by the command anywhere at the Lagos airport. “The report is false. We did not arrest him. People made enquiry at the time and we told them it was false,” Ogagbo said. The media reports had stated that the governor’s son was on his way to the United Arab Emirates aboard an Emirates Airlines that when he was allegedly nabbed. The Osun State government had refuted the claims. In a statement by Aregbesola’s media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, the government had said that Kabiru neither travelled nor detained by security agencies for money laundering. “The younger Aregbesola neither travelled anywhere nor had any encounter with any security personnel today. It is obvious the evil minds at work are out to drag an innocent young man’s name into this dirt in order to get at his father,” Okanlawon’s statement partly read