Activist Joe Okei-Odumakin, on Monday, kicked against the harassment of journalists by security agencies at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The President, Centre for Change, in a statement titled, ‘Stop the harassment of journalists’, said regardless of the sensitivity of a trial, Nigerians deserved to be informed. The activist was reacting to the arrested of Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and others by security operatives today on the court premises.
The ‘Buhari-must-go’ campaigner was picked up while he streamed activities around the court on Facebook. He was said to have been in court in solidarity with the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; as well as the ‘Buhari-must-go’ protesters who were arrested at Dunamis Church and detained by the Department of State Services.Reacting, Okei-Odumakin said, “These must stop. The freedoms, liberties, and fundamental rights of citizens are not at the whims and caprices of security operatives or of the government they purport to work for.
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