HURIWA Flays Abduction Of Radio Journalist In Imo

HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has rebuffed the justification given by the Imo State government for what was described as the abduction by some unidentified armed men at the weekend of a radio journalist Mr Nonso Uba over alleged libel against the person of the Imo State governor Mr Hope Uzodimma. 

HURIWA has therefore asked the Nigeria Police Force to immediately free the abducted journalist Mr. Nonso Uba, apologise for the illegal manner of his arrest and/or charge him to the competent Court of law if the governor has good enough evidence and must be ready to submit himself to court to establish his allegation of libel against the Owerri based journalist.

HURIWA equally tasked the Police Service Commission to ascertain how the Nigeria Police Force could mobilise huge financial resources to probably fly a chattered aircraft or pay for the expensive tickets on commercial airline with the sole purpose of invading Owerri to arrest a journalist over civil libel. 

HURIWA said that libel or slander under the Nigerian jurisprudence as in most jurisdictions around the World is essentially a CIVIL MATTER, just as the Rights group maintained that it was unnecessary for the Imo State governor to reach out to the Police Force headquarters in Abuja which led to what most eye witnesses had described as broad daylight armed kidnapping of a citizen of Nigeria and a professional radio journalist Nonso Uba.

HURIWA said the strident effort by the spokesperson of the Imo State government to justify this illegality and the gestapo style abduction of a citizen of Imo State, is untenable and absolutely illogical.  HURIWA expressed shock that under a democracy, that police operatives paid with taxpayers’ money can behave like terrorists or kidnappers by double crossing the moving car driven by a Journalist Mr. Nonso Uba in their overzealous determination to display crude force leading to the abandonment of the car of the journalist by the roadside after he was reportedly whisked away and flown to Abuja.

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