Mr. Jones Abiri, the man said to have been arrested by the Department of State Services , DSS, is not a journalist and does not belong to any chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journlists, Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity clarified Thursday night.
Shehu said Abiri was arrested for pipeline vandalism and crude theft, including militant activities in the Niger Delta.
The presidential spokesman was reacting to a statement at the World Congress of International Press Institute in Abuja that a journalist, known as Jones Abiri was arrested in the course of his work.
“On the issue of the arrest and continued detention of Mr Jones Abiri, who allegedly parades himself as a journalist, by the Department of State Services (DSS), it is instructive to note that the accused is a guest of the security agency because of his alleged…
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