The
Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kaduna State Council, has called for the
immediate release of the editor of Al-Mizan Newspaper Malam Musa
Muhammad Auwal and a reporter with the same Newspaper Malam Aliyu Saleh,
who were whisked away by security agents to an unknown destination.
A
statement signed by the chairman of the union, Comrade Yusuf Idris
said, the duo were taken away from their houses in the early hours of
Monday, after their wives and children were manhandled by the security
operatives and their whereabouts is still unknown at the time of filing
this report.
Several
efforts by the union to find their whereabouts proved abortive, as some
of the security agents contacted claimed ignorance of their arrest.
According to the statement, the union viewed this clandestine operation as primitive and unwarranted.
It
further stated that there are more civilized and acceptable standards
of carrying out investigations, adding that, this method of attacking
journalists and beating their wives in their homes before they were
taken away is unacceptable.
The
statement urged the security agencies to produce the two journalists
unharmed and adopt acceptable standards of investigating alleged crimes,
pointing out that, the right proper thing to do is to take the matter
to court for subsequent action.
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