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A journalist, Segun Olatunji, has recounted his 14-day detention predicament in the custody of security agents working for the government., said he was accused of terrorism for writing his story about the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila.
“Immediately, they came in, the man leading me took my two phones. I asked to know who he was but he said, ‘We are from the military and we are here to arrest you’. I was just wearing my boxers short. Olatunji said at a point, the hooded security agents whose face couldn’t be seen in the thick darkness of the cell told him that he wasn’t sober for his offence and then tightened the handcuffs in his hands.
Continuing he said, “Then they came to the crux of the matter which was a story we carried in January about the Chief of Staff to the President. It’s a story we got and we had our sources. In fact, they were not concerned about the veracity of the story; their major concern was to know the sources of the story. ‘Who do you have in the Presidency? Who are your sources there?’ they kept asking me.”
“Sometimes they would give us three slices of bread. I never took their tea and beans. They got angry but I said I won’t taste those two things. On how he was released after 14 days, he said it was “gangster-like” as the security operatives did not let senior journalists who came to sign documents for his bail to know where he was detained.
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