Nigeria: Akwa Ibom - MRA Hails Plan to Probe Brutality On Journalist

16 December 2012

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) yesterday lauded the decision of Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio and State Director of the State Security Service (SSS) Toma Minti to investigate and punish those responsible for brutalising Mr Kazeem Ibrahim, the correspondent of The Nation newspaper.

In a statement in Lagos, the organization further called on both the governor and the State Director of the SSS to demonstrate their seriousness over the matter by immediately suspending the two SSS officers being investigated, pending the completion of the investigation.

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