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Mr Ayeni regained his freedom on Friday after combined efforts from the media, the Nigerian Embassy in Benin, and legal representation.

Mr Ayeni regained his freedom on Friday after combined efforts from the media, the Nigerian Embassy in Benin, and legal representation.

  The police in Benin Republic, an adjoining country to Nigeria, have detained the Editor of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Damilola Ayeni.   Ayeni was accused by the authorities in the West African country of being a jihadist.   According to FIJ, they are demanding a bribe of 800,000 CFA to free Ayeni, whose arrest last week became public knowledge only early on Tuesday.  

According to the newspaper, Mr Ayeni was on a trip to the Republic of Benin for the second leg of a Nigeria-Benin environmental journalism report when he was arrested and labelled a jihadist.

The Coalition of Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has called for the immediate release of Mr. Damilola Ayeni, a Nigerian journalist and the Editor of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), who was arrested by the police in Benin Republic. SaharaReporters earlier reported that the police in the West African country had detained Ayeni and accused of being a jihadist.

The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has condemned the arrest and detention of Damilola Ayeni, editor of the Nigerian-based Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), over a “jihadist” allegation.

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