IPC demands investigation into EFCC raid on Enugu radio station

The International Press Centre, IPC, has called for the contiguous probe and prosecution of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, officials who stormed Urban Radio Station (94.5FM) successful Enugu connected the evening of Monday, October 14, 2024.

The request which came connected Tuesday via a statement, was made done its Safety and Protection of Journalists, SPJ, hub.

Signed by the IPC Executive Director, the radical described the incidental arsenic “a despicable battle connected the media and a blatant maltreatment of power.”

“The caller spate of attacks connected journalists suggests that the EFCC and different information agencies person resorted to extra-judicial, jungle tactics to code immoderate grievances they whitethorn have.” Said the statement.

He said, “the officials overpowered the unit of the presumption who they alleged intimidated with arms, forced them to beryllium connected the bare floor, took their phones, and went consecutive into the unrecorded workplace of the presumption and whisked distant the anchor of the interactive programme, PRIME TIME, that was going connected unrecorded astatine the clip of the invasion.”

They called connected the EFCC Chairman, Olanipekun Olukoye, to motorboat a thorough probe into the penetration and to guarantee that the officers progressive are prosecuted and held accountable for their unprofessional conduct.

The radical who stressed that the incidental should service arsenic a informing to different officers, urged the EFCC to supply further grooming for its unit connected the law boundaries of their authority.

They besides condemned a caller onslaught connected journalists successful Bayelsa State, which according to them, occurred during a property briefing organized by the Sagbama Local Government Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Yenagoa.

In the attack, thugs were reported to person attacked the venue, leaving respective journalists injured.

IPC reaffirmed its committedness to advocating for the extortion of journalists and holding those liable for attacks connected the property accountable.