The Editor of FirstNews, an online Newspaper in Nigeria, Segun Olatunji, has been released by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), after spending 14 days in its cell for publishing a story considered unfavourable to the Nigeria Military establishment.
It took the intervention of the International Press Institute (IPI); the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), to secure the freedom of Olatunji after much pressure on the military authorities on Thursday in Abuja.
For days, the leadership of the IPI, the NGE and NUJ as well as Olatunji’s colleagues and family members searched for the news Editor without a trace of him, as his abductors ensured that no one knew his whereabouts.
Segun Olatunji, while narrating his ordeal in military detention told his colleagues in Abuja on Thursday how he was unjustly detained and tortured for 14 days by the DIA in Abuja.
The leadership of professional media bodies have condemn the action of the security Agency for abducting and holding the Editor of FirstNews, Segun Olatunji for 14 days, but consistently denied knowledge of his whereabouts.
ait.live reports that Media practitioners are appealing to the democratic government in Nigeria to ensure freedom of the Press and the safety of practicing journalists in the West African country.
Editor: Ken Eseni
