Nigeria: SSS Denied Us Access to Arrested Editor - Al Mizan Management

21 February 2013

Kaduna — The management of Al Mizan newspaper in Kaduna yesterday said the State Security Service (SSS) in connivance with the Joint Task Force (JTF) refused to allow access or contact with the re-arrested editor of the paper, Musa Muhammad Awwal.

Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper, Mallam Ibrahim Musa, in a statement said all efforts to reach the editor have proved abortive. Muhammad Awwal was whisked away from his residence in the early hours of Thursday February 14, 2013.

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