Nigerian journalist, Segun Olatunji, narrates ordeal in military detention

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Shortly after his release, Mr Olatunji gave a vivid account of his ordeals at a joint presser organised by the International Press Institute , theSegun Olatunji, editor of FirstNews, after his release by the military on Thursday in Abuja. He would later learn while being incarcerated by the military that intelligence officers had lodged at a hotel near Mr Olatunji’s wife’s shop days before the arrest.

The embattled journalist said he stepped out of his house into a waiting crowd of armed military personnel comprising the army, Air Force and Defence Intelligence Agency . The next day, the journalist was presented at a military clinic where a doctor examined him, and his urine and blood samples were taken.Days after he was thrown into the dungeon, Mr Olatunji was called into the interrogation room.

After that, the military authorities phoned Mr Odunuga, a deputy editor at the Nations Newspaper, directing him to somewhere around the ECOWAS secretariat in the Asokoro area of Abuja. “I was even made to understand that they would have arrested me in my hometown on 8 March, I was there for an ICT programme by Senator Olamilekun Adeola Yayi, my senator. One of them told me how they have been trailing me and watching me for about two or three weeks. They even lodged in a hotel close to my wife’s shop, and it was from there they arrested her and my one-year-old son,” he said.

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