A group of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) called the Action Group for the Protection of Civic Actors is organising a peaceful protest to demand the release of Daniel Ojukwu, the FIJ reporter who has been in police custody since his abduction on May 1.
FIJ learned that the protesters will march peacefully to the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) Headquarters in Abuja at 9 am on Thursday, May 9.
Some of the organisations in the group are the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Gatefield, Invictus Africa, Enough is Enough Nigeria, Accountability Lab, Global Rights, Dataphyte, Nigeria Network of NGOs (NNNGO), and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), among others.
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Bukky Shonibare, the chairman of FIJ’s Board of Trustees and Executive Director of Invictus Africa, an organisation dedicated to promoting human rights and gender equality, made a post on Wednesday morning, urging interested Nigerians to join the peaceful protest.
Shonibare told our reporter that she is representing FIJ and Invictus in the group.
Meanwhile, today makes it the eighth day since the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) abducted Ojukwu in Lagos, where he was initially held for three days before he was transferred to Abuja by the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), the highest investigating arm of the police.
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FIJ gathered that Ojukwu is being detained for a purported violation of the 2015 Cybercrime Act.
FIJ is also aware that his ‘offence’ is connected to his investigative report on how Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, allocated N147.1 million to an account linked to Enseno Global Ventures (Enseno GV), an Abuja-based restaurant, supposedly for the construction of a classroom.
