Police detectives said to be the Inspector General of Police (IGP) team from the force headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday arrested four journalists at the Warri Correspondents Chapel of the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Anaedoonline.com reliably gathered that the police detectives, who stormed the Press Centre of the Warri NUJ, along Gbiaye Street in Warri at about 3:45 pm, arrested Matthew Omonigho of the Daily Post Online over a yet-to-be-disclosed offence.
They told him that they were in town for an investigation and that he has a link with a suspect, Mr. Cletus Opukeme whom they were looking for.
They added that the said Cletus Opukeme also has the mobile number of another suspect whom they were also tracking.
The IGP Squad later took him as they drove round town to track Mr. Cletus Opukeme to Bendel Estate in Uvwie Local Government Area but could not find him.
They returned Mr Omonigho back to the Area Command wherein his statement was recorded with a demand that he must provide the said Cletus, his colleague.
It was gathered that shortly after the arrest of the journalist, the leadership of the NUJ in Warri immediately dispatched Edeki Egafe of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Francis Sadhere of Business Day and Christopher Odomhe, a freelance journalist to the Warri Area Command to ascertain the offence for which Omonigho was arrested.
On arrival at the area command, the three Journalists, Egafe, Sadhere and Odomhe were immediately arrested and detained.
The chairman of the Warri NUJ, Okies Vicky, who was at the area command to know why the four Journalists were been arrested and detained, was not allowed to see his detained colleagues till about 9:30 pm when he left the premises.
Chairman of the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Michael Ikeogwu, frowned on the way and manner security operatives are going after journalists in the state.
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