- By Halimah Olamide
Convener of the Revolution Now Movement Omoyele Sowore on Wednesday revealed the real reason detained journalist Daniel Ojukwu has not been released.
Sowore who shared a video clip of the detained journalist in detention facility as recorded three days ago, said the police had promised to set him free on producing a surety.
Sowore alleged that after the single surety was produced, the police later declined to release.
“We learned later that the IGP, Kayode Egbetokun was personally behind his detention because his publication @fijnigeria linked the IGP to a powerful smuggler in Nigeria’s southwest,” Sowore wrote on Wednesday
Ojukwu was arrested in Lagos on May 1. His arrest was immediately not known as he was declared missing.
It was later revealed that he was indeed arrested in Lagos and whisked to Abuja.
Sowore wrote, “we had met him at the @PoliceNG detention location, they brought him out of his cell with a promise to release him if we provided a single surety, yesterday the @Policeng went on wild goose chase visiting the home and offices of the single surety, a high ranking official of the @UnionNuj upon completion of the “verification,”
A coalition of activists are expected to protest the continued detention of the journalist at the Police headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.