Power fights poetry
Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed should feel embarrassed that his name has been linked with the absurd arrest and detention of a journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi, also known as Oba Akewi. Mohammed should also feel embarrassed that the police had arrested and detained Jolayemi’s wife and siblings in order to force the journalist to give himself up.
Jolayemi surrendered to the police in Ilorin, Kwara State, on May 6. It took the police more than two weeks to come up with a charge against him.
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