The journalist’s detention triggered criticisms of the worsening press freedom in less than a year of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
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It acknowledged “the significant effect of the media pressure and, more importantly, Thursday’s protests by civic actors in modifying what had been a deliberate misuse of state power by the police.” The police spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the journalist’s arrest was based on a petition written against him, accusing him of violating the Cybercrimes Act, a well-known law that the Nigerian authorities have constantly used to suppress press freedom.
“We presented the highest official of the NUJ in Abuja, and after verifying his property and place of work, they said they have now jacked the bail conditions to two directors who are civil servants with landed properties in Abuja,” he said at a protest on Thursday.
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