Group drags FG to ECOWAS court, demands N110m for slain journalists

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For failing to investigate, prosecute and punish the murderers of the 11 journalists killed between 1998 and 2019, the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has

In the copy of the suit which was on Monday made available to DAILY POST by Idowu Adewale, Communications Officer of MRA, the leadership of the organization are asking the court to direct the government to pay the families of each of the journalists N10 million as reparation.

The journalists named in the suit are Tunde Oladepo, Bureau Chief of The Guardian newspaper’s Ogun State office, killed in Abeokuta on February 26, 1998 by gunmen who entered his home early in the morning and shot him dead in the presence of his wife and two young children. Others are Bayo Ohu, an assistant news editor with The Guardian newspaper, shot by armed men in his home in Lagos on September 20, 2009; Nathan Dabak, deputy editor, and Sunday Gyang Bwede, reporter, both with the Light Bearer, a monthly newspaper owned by the Church of Christ in Nigeria, who were attacked and killed by a mob in Jos on April 24, 2010 among others.

 

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