Security details at the main gate of the Imo state Government House Monday arrested the correspondent of the Punch Newspapers in Imo, Chidiebube Okeoma over an interview he was being granted by protesting women.
Blueprint gathered that the arrest was as a result of the interview the protesting Imo women sweepers who were being owed several months of salary by the state government were granting him in front of the Government House without permission from the security men who later disclosed that his arrest was as a result of the security situation in the state, especially in and around Imo Government House
When he regained freedom later, Okeoma thanked his colleagues for their concerns. He disclosed that he was beaten up and tortured and was forced to delete all the pictures he took and the interviews he recorded just for the sake of widows whose salaries were seized by the government, adding that he was planning to visit a hospital for a checkup.
When the Media Adviser to the Imo state Commissioner for Police, CSP Mike Abatam was contacted over the incident, he said he was unaware of what happened.
