Following the disappearance of an Abuja based journalist, Tordue Henry Salem, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, FCT Council, has given the Nigerian Police, the Department of State Security, DSS, and other security agencies a 24-hour mandate to produce the journalist.
The mandate was handed down at a World Press Conference organised
by the NUJ in conjunction with some Human Rights Organizations,
including Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA,, Men Against
Rape Foundation and others.
The FCT NUJ Chairman, Comrade Emmanuel Ogbeche said that the
Council promptly informed the Police and other security agencies
immediately the case of Salem was made known to the Council and
lamented that they have so far not done anything to unravel the
whereabouts of the missing Vanguard newspaper reporter who covers
the National Assembly.
Ogbeche stated that in this digital age, it takes little or no serious efforts
to locate a missing person who has mobile telephone and other facilities
easy to track.
