(MRA/IFEX) – Isaac Umunna, an editorial consultant for the Lagos-based weekly “Global Star” and general editor of the London-based magazine “Africa Today”, who was arrested and detained on 9 September 2004 by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), has been moved to an unknown location. Umunna had been detained at the SSS’s Lagos […]
(MRA/IFEX) – Isaac Umunna, an editorial consultant for the Lagos-based weekly “Global Star” and general editor of the London-based magazine “Africa Today”, who was arrested and detained on 9 September 2004 by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), has been moved to an unknown location.
Umunna had been detained at the SSS’s Lagos State headquarters, where his wife, Hope Umunna, had been bringing him meals since his arrest. But when Hope Umunna arrived with his breakfast on the morning of 15 September, she was told that he had been transferred to another location. The security agents would not tell her where her husband had been transferred. Some security operatives at the SSS office simply told her not to come to the office anymore as her husband was no longer there.
Hope Umunna said that when she last saw her husband the previous day, 14 September, his diarrhoea had worsened and he had to be taken to the SSS clinic. He was treated by a nurse as there was no doctor available to attend to him. She has expressed fears over his health and safety.
