Nigerian soldiers on Thursday arrested a Daily Trust reporter in Maiduguri, Borno State, over a report about the Boko Haram war.
at New GRA, handcuffed the reporter, Olatunji Omirin, forced him into a Hilux van and drove away.
Mr. Omirin was kept in detention till about 7 p.m. when the military released him after coming under pressure from other journalists who promptly boycotted a major military function scheduled for 5 p.m. The journalist said the deputy director, whose name he could not immediately determine, did not bother about Mr Tunji’s cuffed hands, until he protested.“He said the military was not happy with some of my report particularly that of 20th January, and I said ‘is that why you have to handcuff me?’. It was then he apologised and said that it was his boys that acted in an overzealous,” the reporter narrated.
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