Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has ordered the arrest of Naomi Mutah Nyadar.
Naomi Mutah Nyadarv took part in a meeting called by First Lady Patience Jonathan and was then taken to a police station, they say.
Another leader of the protest, Saratu Angus Ndirpaya, told AP State Security Service agents drove her and Mrs Nyadar to the police station after an all-night meeting with the First lady at the presidential villa in Abuja.
She said police immediately released her but held Mrs. Nyadar. She told AP the First Lady expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to Boko Haram.
Mrs. Ndirpaya told AP the First Lady accused them of fabricating the abductions. “She told so many lies, that we just wanted the government of Nigeria to have a bad name, that we did not want to support her husband’s rule,” she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Mrs Jonathan reportedly felt slighted that the mothers of the abducted girls had sent Ms Nyadar to the meeting.
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 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.
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".
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