Peraonnel of the Nigeria Police on Tuesday ‘abducted’ the House of Representatives correspondent of Daily Trust Newspaper, Musa Abdullahi-Krishi, from the National Assembly complex, for alleged defamatory publication against Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar.
He was however said to have been released later in the evening after making a statement at Zuba police station, Abuja.
The dramatic arrest was effected by one Superintendent of Police, Mr. Bello Oroh who said he was sent from the Police Force Intelligence Bureau.
The drama leading to the arrest started when the National Assembly’s Police Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), Mr. Dele Olaoye, sent for the journalist requesting his attention in his office.
It was gathered however that without disclosing the nature of his offence, Olaoye handed the journalist over to the men who reportedly came for him from the Zone 10 Police Headquarters in Kano State, and forcibly dragged him into a waiting Toyota Hilux with registration number: Abuja RSH:850 AH When Krishi’s colleagues later besieged the office of the National Assembly’s Divisional Police Offi cer, Mr. Sulu Gambari on getting information of the arrest, he confirmed the presence of the detectives from Zone Kano, explaining that he took them to the office of theClerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori who was briefedof the journalist’s offence.
Krishi’s ordeal, it was gathered, came as a result of an advertorial published in his medium at the instance of a group which claimed link with the Jigawa state governor in solidarity with former President Olusegun Obasanjo when the latter wrote President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him not to seek reelection in 2019.
But the Jigawa state government, through the governor’s media aide, Zaki Bello denied any link with the repoter’s ‘abduction’.
