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#KeepFisayoSafe: Nigerians, Amnesty International want Fisayo Soyombo protected after exposé on prisons

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International human rights organisation, Amnesty International and Nigerians are seeking protection for an investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, who exposed rot in Nigerian Police Force and Correctional Service.

Reports emerged on Tuesday that Soyombo is being hunted for arrest by security operatives after the release of the second part of his three-part exposé.

Soyombo also told SaharaReporters that he is presently in hiding because he is being hunted for arrest.

In the three-part undercover report, the journalist exposed corruption in the nation’s criminal justice system.

He spent two weeks in detention, five days in a police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison, to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release by the prison.

Several human rights groups and advocates, as well as Nigerian journalists among others, have taken to social media to condemn the planned arrest of Soyombo. They describe it as an attempt to muzzle freedom of the press and give room for corruption to fester in the country.

A rights advocacy group, Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE) tweeted:

According to information received, the personal safety of the investigative journalist, @fisayosoyombo may be under threat. We urge the @NigeriaGov to guarantee his safety.

“He is to be charged to court & prosecuted under Section 29 of the Nigeria Correctional Service Act”. These moves against future investigative stories are actually attacks by the state on democratic governance & the authority of the citizenry.”

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Amnesty International (AI) Nigeria tweeted:

Media Career Development expert and a former Online Editor of The Nation Newspaper, Lekan Otufodunrin tweeted:

 

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