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A Kwara State-based pro-democracy group under the aegis of ‘Kwara Must Change’ has lambasted the Nigeria Police Force over the continued detention of some journalists in the state. The organisation alleged that the journalists were being detained on the orders of Ms. Monsurah Jumoke Gafar, a relation of the Attorney General of the Federation. The group in a statement on Monday noted that the detention of members of the press for doing their job amounts to an outright abuse of power, not only by the police but also by Ms Gafar and the judiciary.

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State command, has detained two online journalists, Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan Babatunde and Lukman Oluwatoyin Bolakale, since Monday on the orders of some officials of the Kwara State Government. The two journalists – Babatunde and Bolakale who are publishers of Just Events Online and Satcom Media respectively – have been under incarceration at the Kwara State Police Command September 11 over infighting within ranks of the state government, it was learnt.