The police released the PREMIUM TIMES reporter after four hours of detaining him at the Supreme Court for filming a scene with his phone on the court premises on Friday.
at their office at the Supreme Court in Abuja for about four hours for using his phone to film a scene on the court premises.
The journalist took advantage of the short time he was asked to unlock the phone to message his editors about his detention. Pleas from members of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents led by Kayode Lawal to the police were ignored as they continued to detain the journalist. Without citing any legal basis for the journalist’s arrest, they also said Mr Ejekwonyilo refused to film the earlier part of the scene when the woman being arrested allegedly slapped a police officer. The woman denied slapping any of the police officers.Both the Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Mr Akande, and Police PRO, Mr Adejobi, contacted by PREMIUM TIMES’ editors, intervened by calling the DPO.
After the proceedings, Mr Ejekwonyilo stumbled on the scene of a tussle between a police officer and a woman named Ruby Nyananyo, a partisan supporter, who was also at the court to witness the judgement.
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