Four days after a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Port Harcourt Zonal Office, Chidiebere Onyia, was kidnapped, the state Police Command has assured that she would soon be set free.
Spokesman of the Command, Nnamdi Omoni, gave the assurance yesterday in a telephone chat with The Guardian while giving updates on the whereabouts of the journalist, who is a breastfeeding mother.
Omoni said reports from personnel of the Command’s tactical unit, who were mandated by the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, to ensure Onyia’s safe and quick return have received a green light. x
Meantime, journalists in the state, who are disturbed and sadden by the ugly development, have taken to their different social media handles, calling for the quick release of their colleague.
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The defendants were re-arraigned on amended 23 counts of obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering and abuse of office involving about N2,894, 500,000.
Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt
The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday re-arraigned George Turnah, a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, an erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Commission and two others alongside nine firms before Justice Mohammed Turaki of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to a statement signed by the Head, Media, and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, on Monday, the defendants were re-arraigned on an amended 23-counts, bordering on obtaining money by false pretense, money laundering, and abuse of office to the tune of N2.89bn