In less than 12 hours that the State Security Service
agents, soldiers and policemen arrested a Kaduna-based newspaper, Al-Mizan’s
Editor, Mallam Musa Muhammad Awwal, and a reporter, Mallam Aliyu Saleh, the
management of the newspaper have asked the security agents to released its
staff with an immediate effect.
In a statement issued by the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief,
Ibrahim Musa, he disclosed that over 40 security agents in 10 cars and an
Armoured Personnel Carrier swooped on Aliyu’s home in Rigasa, Kaduna and
manhandled him with other occupants in his house before he was arrested
alongside his wife.
He added that Aliyu’s wife was dropped by the security
agents before allegedly invading Saleh’s home located close to Makarfi Road by
Nnamdi Azikiwe Way.
He noted that the security agents beat his wife and ailing
son up and whisked the editor away.
The statement reads in part; “On behalf of the
I.M.Publications, publishers of Al- Mizan Newspaper, we hereby call for the
immediate and unconditional release of our staff whose arrest has violated due
process and their human rights.
“We shall not relent in all efforts of making this issue
publicized all over the world which will subsequently reveal the inadequacies
of the security operatives.
“We hereby call on the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Guild
of Editors, Press Union of the Islamic World, human and civil rights groups as
well as all concerned and well meaning personalities that believe in fairness
and justice to humanity to outrightly denounce this atrocity perpetrated by
security personnel in the name of providing security,” Musa added.
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