Plain-cloth police men, today, Thursday, stormed the premises of Premium Times, an online medium operating from the nation’s capital, Abuja, arrested the Publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi and reporter, Evelyn Okakwu.
This was even as Global rights watchdog, Amnesty International has cried foul, insisting that the publisher and his reporter should be released immediately.
In a series of tweets from its handle @AmnestyNigeria, the rights group said: that it “will investigate the circumstances of this raid and the arrests of the journalists.”
The group called on government to ensure that the journalists have access to their lawyers and families even as it advised the security agencies to charge them to court if they have anything against them.
During the raid of the premises of the medium, the police said that they were acting based on a petition issued by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai.
Findings show that the arrest of the journalists was not unconnected to three reports the medium published which related to the Army. They are about the COAS Buratai and his case at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), a Pastor that was murdered by the Army in Rivers State and the missing soldiers who was presumed to have been cornered and killed by Boko Haram terrorists. [myad]
