Police, Prison Corruption Report: Alleged Plans To Arrest Journalist Flayed

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development (AIED), has described the alleged plan by the Federal government to arrest an investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who recently exposed the alleged systemic corruption in the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Prison Force as “distasteful, nauseating, and  appalling.”

The organization, in a press release, on Tuesday, signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Comrade O’Seun John, called on the Federal Government to concentrate resources on arresting and prosecuting all those who have turned the Nigeria institutions to barter.

It also noted that Mr. Fisayo should be commended for his investigative report, rather than being threatened or arrest for engaging in such a work.

According to the organization,  “We woke up today to a piece of disturbing news, one capable of eroding every piece of civility in our country and knighting us as nothing more than a Banana Republic.

“Mr. Fisayo Soyombo, the highly decorated investigative journalist who has been at the forefront of exposing the rots in our society is being surveyed for arrest by agents of the Federal Government for once again exposing the massive corruption across the Police and Prison Services in the country.

“The now-viral undercover investigative work embarked upon by Mr. Fisayo which seems to have triggered some powerful officers of the Prison and Police Services should be commended by all progressive Nigerians.

“Mr. Fisayo is a national hero that put himself in dangerous circumstances to protect whatever is left of the sanity of this country. Instead of having him fear for his life, the federal government should be concentrating resources on arresting and prosecuting all those who have turned our institutions to barter.

“This planned arrest is distasteful, nauseating, appalling and against every known convention of civility.

“In the words of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the work of a journalist is not to report if Mr. A says the sky is black and Mr. B says it is white, but to inspect carefully and report the truth. Mr. Fisayo has done that and he should never be rewarded with highhandedness.”

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