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| President Goodluck Jonathan |
The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) had expressed concern over the travails of journalists working with the media house. The IPI, which is the global platform for a free press, in a statement signed by its Nigeria National Committee Chairman, Kabiru Yusuf, noted that: “Although the police have released the journalists after two unwarranted, agonising nights in detention, we see nothing to celebrate in their release because they ought not to have been detained in the first instance.”
IPI added: “Investigating their alleged professional infractions, is a throw-back to the best-forgotten dark days of dictatorial regimes. The courts, not detention centres, are the proper place to take alleged offenders.
“IPI also frowns at the journalists’ conditional release, where they are made to continue to report to the police, as this is illegal and unacceptable. The police cannot usurp the power of the courts.
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