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Naomi Mutah took part
in a meeting called by First Lady Patience Jonathan and was then taken to a
police station, they say.
Mrs Jonathan
reportedly felt slighted that the mothers of the abducted girls had sent Ms
Mutah to the meeting.
Analysts say Mrs
Jonathan is a politically powerful figure.
Ms Mutah, a
representative of the Chibok community where the girls were seized from their
school more than two weeks ago, last week organised a protest outside
parliament in the capital, Abuja.
The protesters, and
many Nigerians, feel the government has not done enough to find the missing
girls, who are thought to have been kidnapped by militant Islamist group Boko
Haram.
Boko Haram has not
commented on the accusation.
President Goodluck
Jonathan on Sunday night spoke for the first time about the abductions.
In a live TV
broadcast, he said he did not know where the girls were but said everything was
being done to find them.
Pogo Bitrus, another
Chibok community leader, told the BBC he had been to the Asokoro police station
where Ms Mutah is reported to have been taken but could find no written record
of her being there.
He described the
detention as "unfortunate" and "insensitive".
He said he hoped Mrs
Jonathan would soon "realise her mistake".
Mr Bitrus noted that
Mrs Jonathan has no constitutional power to order arrests.
The AP news agency
quotes another community leader, Saratu Angus Ndirpaya, as saying that Mrs
Jonathan accused the activists of fabricating the abductions to give the
government a bad name.
She also said the
First Lady accused them of supporting Boko Haram.
Source BBC
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