Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-rufai has ordered the
arrest and subsequently sent a Kaduna-based journalist, Mr. Jacob Onjewu
Dickson to prison custody, on the allegation of writing a story the state
Government described as inciting.
Jacob Onjewu was invited by the State Police Command over a
story an online news medium www.autthenticnewsdaily broke that the governor
was pelted and booed in Angwan Gado, a suburb of Malali axis in
Kaduna North-local government area of the state where a communal clash was said
to have broke out earlier in the week.
The online medium was believed to be manage by Mr. Dickson,
but the said story was written by Philibus Dauda. Following the report on
www.authenticnewsdaily, other conventional media reported the story.
However, Mr. Dickson was on Thursday invited by
the state Police Command to write a statement and thereafter was detained
in the police custody where he passed the night in a police cell at the police
headquarters.
Mr. Dickson was on Friday arraigned in court, in Kaduna
Magistrate Court 1 where a secret trial was conducted in the judge’s
office and Mr. Jacob was asked to be remanded in prison custody without option
of bail.
Efforts to reach el-Rufai’s spokesman, Samuel Aruwan and the
Police Public Relations Officer, Kaduna State, Zubairu Abubakar to respond to
the development proved abortive, as calls put to them were not picked.
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