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On 6 May 2008, about a dozen armed, plain-clothed policemen from the Niger State Command (in north-central Nigeria) raided the head office of "Leadership" newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital, and arrested the newspaper's deputy editor, Danladi Ndayebo, over a feature article published by the paper.
There is no need to appeal or protest to anybody on this issue.The legal system in Nigeria is more advanced than the way the Leadership Newspaper is portraying it.Go to the High court and ask for an order that will refrain the police from harassing your staff qand ask for huge damages ( about N500 million)for the arrest and detention and add Senator Isa Mohammed .They will stop, trust me, I did it in Nigeria.
I don't know why Nigeria's police are doing like animal.They would flow rules and regulation.All I will tell you is that the management should made arrangement to visit them and know what is on.If you are at fault pls try to settle with them but if they are at fault pls! pls!! pls!!! don't take it easy them. Thank you.
Nigerian senators who make the law but don't want to abide by them, should be sacked from government. It is an act of vandalizing both the rules of law and democracy for a senator to order an arrest of a citizen for making free speech. African leaders are a disgrace when it comes to folowing rules of law. The police commissioner has behaved in manner unbecoming of a senior officer that should know what due process is. How can the newsppaper that is the eyes and ears of the masses do their work under this oppressive state of mind? In civilized nations, the senior government officials are open game when it comes to all kinds of ridicle in the press or in comic circles. They know that and do not take it home and that is why they also try to live above board. This senator was only trying to intimidate and suppress information, but his nemessis will catch up with him, somehow. I support that the newspaper should sue the police for Billions so they can learn to get their ducks in a row.
You really need no comment from us, considering you have a union, with whatever name you call it,and a court, for whatever case you've got. Anyway, I might hope the police would know their job, and the needs of the changing times, that we are under no miltry dictatorship to warrant such high handedness. Hoping this issue is not dragged, yours.
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