How IGP office locked me for 3 days over court injunction — Journalist

By Olayinka Ajayi

JOURNALIST and laminitis of Media Room Hub, Azuka Ogujiuba, has fixed a elaborate relationship of however 2 officers of the Nigerian Police Force orchestrated her detention for 3 days implicit the work of a tribunal injunction connected her Instagram page.

Narrating to newsmen her ordeal astatine the IGP’s Office, Ogujiuba, who was evidently yet to retrieve from the daze of harassment she suffered from the officers, said: “Lots of journalists person been detained unlawfully for doing nothing. You volition ne'er recognize until it happens to you.

“I got a missive from the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Office, inviting me. I went determination connected August 6, the radical successful complaint of the lawsuit were Moses Jolugbo and Ifeoma Ogoli. I person precocious regards for the police, and I respect the constitution, that was wherefore I went.

“It was Adewale Oladapo that petitioned against maine for cyberbullying and defamation of character. They showed maine my Instagram leafage (media-hub), wherever I published a tribunal injunction.

“I told them what I published was not cyberbullying but a tribunal injunction. I told them that I didn’t constitute it, but the tribunal approved it and that I americium not the lone media that published it and that adjacent to 20 media houses published it. I asked, ‘Why americium I the lone 1 being petitioned?’ They asked maine to get a surety, and I left.

“Two days later, I was successful the bureau for an exclusive interrogation erstwhile the 2 constabulary officers who interrogated maine the different time showed up. They chased maine similar a terrorist, harassed me, and dragged my phone. Even the idiosyncratic that I interviewed thought they were kidnappers. They took maine to their office, for astir 45 minutes, they didn’t accidental anything. They aboriginal confronted maine that I didn’t bring down the tribunal injunction that I published.

“I was traumatised. I couldn’t sleep. I americium definite the IGP is not alert that specified a happening is happening successful his office. Misused authorization was utilized connected me. They are giving the Nigerian constabulary a atrocious name”.

“I cognize that my detention was orchestrated by Moses Jolugbo and Ifeoma Ogoli. The policemen pointed guns astatine me, and I had nary prime but to obey.

“I asked to talk to my household oregon my lawyer, but they refused and locked maine successful the compartment for 3 days without food. I don’t cognize however I survived it.”

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