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Listed to be honoured at the event are, His Royal Highness, Chief Oga Ero (CP, retd),HRH CP Oga Ero rtd. first Adirahu Ny'Igede; Major General Ede Ode (retd), first Military General from Igede and Chairman of Board of Trustees, Adinu Unity Forum; Rt Hon. David Agada Ogewu, member, House of Representatives; His Grace Most Rev. Dr Michael Icha Testimony Simeon, JP, first Archdiocesan Bishop of Igede Archdiocese, MCN; Rev. Dr Isaac Igwe, Superintendent, Assemblies of God, Igede District, and Prof Moses Ikape Ogbaji, Benue State Commissioner for Agriculture.
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Published 7 May 2021
A journalist, Sunday Ode, who was arrested and detained on the orders of the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, recalls his ordeal in this interview with
OLALEKAN ADETAYO
It was learnt that you recently had an encounter with some policemen. When was this and where?
My name is Egena Sunday Ode. I am a journalist based in Abuja. Yes, I had a bitter encounter with some policemen on Friday, April 30, 2021, near the popular AYA roundabout in Abuja around 5.30pm.
How did it happen?
Around 3pm that day, I received a distress call from my cousin, Johnson Ubeh, that he was being held by some police personnel over an alleged contract that he failed to execute. The policemen had earlier pulled him out of his shop on the pretext that they were going to give him a contract. But when he went out to meet them, they changed the story to failure to deliver on a contractual agreement.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s commitment to free press, urging the professionals to wield freedom responsibly and without licentiousness.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja at an event to mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day holding today, the Nigerian leader pointed out that freedom of the press was “an irreducible minimum in a democracy that would flourish, but must be used responsibly.”
He went on: “That everything is permitted does not mean that there are no rules of correctness, particularly in a polity seriously challenged as ours now.
“The media must be sensitive to what we are going through as a country, and anything that would exacerbate the situation should be avoided. The media need to ensure that while informing, educating, entertaining and setting agenda for public discourse, they do not encourage incendiary words and actions that could further hurt our unity in diversity.”
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