NUJ DEMAND RELEASE OF DETAINED JOURNALIST BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY

The statement also noted that the detained journalist is suffering from hypertension, adding that the union is worried about his state of his health while still detention, stressing that, ’we are worried that his health will continue to deteriorate under the condition that he is being held’.

‘We insist that the authorities must immediately release Tony Ezimakor and permit Journalists to operate without fear of arrest . The Muhammad Bahari Government should seize the opportunity to end such blatant attempts to intimidate journalists and make press freedom a priority for the administration’, the union emphasised.