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.
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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.