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Nigerian Journalist, Daniel Ojukwu Regains Freedom

Daniel Ojukwu went missing on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 and could not be reached as his phone numbers were switched off.

by NewsOnline Nigeria
May 11, 2024
in Crime Watch, Top Stories
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Daniel Ojukwu

Nigerian Journalist, Daniel Ojukwu has regained his freedom after unlawful detention.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) abducted by the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Daniel Ojukwu, has regained freedom.
FIJ disclosed on its website that Ojukwu regained freedom yesterday after 10 days in police custody.

 

This Nigeria news platform recalls that Daniel Ojukwu went missing on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 and could not be reached as his phone numbers were switched off.

 

Twenty-four hours after he went missing, FIJ made a missing person report at police stations in the area where Ojukwu was headed.

 

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In efforts to know his whereabouts, a private detective hired by FIJ tracked the last active location of his phones to an address in Isheri Olofin, a location FIJ now believes was where the police originally picked him up.

Ojukwu’s family consequently knew about his detention at Panti where they were made to understand the authorities were accusing him of violating the 2015 Cybercrime Act.

 

Meanwhile, on Sunday morning, the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police relocated him to the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre in Abuja.

 

The police gave FIJ’s lawyers and negotiators led by Omoyele Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters; Jide Oyekunle, chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists FCT Correspondent’s Chapel; and Bukky Shonibare, chairman of FIJ’s Board of Trustees — stringent bail conditions.

 

On Thursday, after a protest march by civil society organisations at the Force Headquarters for his release, the police said he would be released, which eventually happened Friday.

Abimbola Ojenike, Managing Partner of Slingstone LP, FIJ’s attorneys said: “Daniel Ojukwu’s case is one of the most egregious cases of human rights violation and misuse of the powers of the police against journalists.”

 

He further said: “This will not go unchallenged. There’s a significant public interest in Daniel’s human rights enforcement action that goes beyond just this violation.

 

“The constitutional right to free speech is dead if journalists can no longer expose the malfeasance in government officials without fear or oppression.”

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