By Lanre Arogundade
AT a stage we constructed a cage at the secretariat of the Lagos Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Shomolu area of Lagos in which we inserted images of incarcerated journalists to demonstrate to the world that the Nigerian media was in chains.
It was in the aftermath of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections during which journalists and media outlets who stood with the people in the struggle to rid the military through the validation of the mandate freely given by Nigerians to Bashorun MKO Abiola were being hounded.
Lagos NUJ was actually very much part of the June 12 struggle having been led into the Campaign for Democracy, CD, and the Joint Action Committee of Nigeria, JACON, by the radical Ladi Lawal leadership in the thick of the battles in 1993/94. Once we got elected into the exco on the banner of ‘Change ‘95’, we picked the gauntlet in 1995 and the struggle had to continue.
Early occupants of the cage were…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
