Police arrest FIJ reporter Daniel Ojukwu

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By Oluyemi Ogunseyin

04 May 2024 | 9:27 americium

A writer with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Daniel Ojukwu, has been arrested by the Police. FIJ successful a study said Ojukwu was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun. According to the report, the writer is presently being held astatine the State Criminal Investigation…

FIJ reporter, Daniel Ojukwu was precocious arrested by the Police

A writer with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Daniel Ojukwu, has been arrested by the Police.

FIJ successful a study said Ojukwu was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun.

According to the report, the writer is presently being held astatine the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti successful Lagos state.

“Ojukwu went missing connected Wednesday, May 1, his numbers switched disconnected and his whereabouts chartless to some colleagues, household and friends,” FIJ said.

FIJ said connected Thursday, it initially made the study of a missing idiosyncratic astatine constabulary stations successful the country wherever Ojukwu was headed.

The media outlet stated that connected Friday, a backstage detective it hired tracked the past progressive determination of the reporter’s phones to an code successful Isheri Olofin which FIJ present believes was wherever the constabulary primitively abducted him.

“Ojukwu’s household would subsequently get upwind of his detention astatine Panti, wherever they were made to recognize the authorities are accusing him of violating the 2015 Cybercrime Act,” it said.

“A comparative who visited him told FIJ that the authorities declined to supply interaction details of the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) connected jurisdictional grounds arsenic the lawsuit was beyond Lagos.

“The arresting officers are portion of the IG Monitoring Team. They said erstwhile they are done arresting the different radical connected their watchlist successful Lagos, they would transportation him and others to Abuja.”

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