(CCPJ/IFEX) – Ladi Olorunyomi, journalist and assistant director (not head, as was reported in the original alert) of the Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) in Nigeria, was released from custody, apparently without charge, during the afternoon of 3 November 1997. **Updates IFEX alert dated 3 November 1997** Olorunyomi was picked up from her home in Lagos […]
(CCPJ/IFEX) – Ladi Olorunyomi, journalist and assistant director
(not head, as was reported in the original alert) of the
Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) in Nigeria, was released from
custody, apparently without charge, during the afternoon of 3
November 1997.
**Updates IFEX alert dated 3 November 1997**
Olorunyomi was picked up from her home in Lagos at 1am on 3
November by a number of armed military intelligence agents, who
threatened to force their way into her home if she did not open
the door. They broke down her gate on the way in and created a
disturbance loud enough to wake the neighbours. The agents, who
frightened her two young children, told her she would be home in
an hour. No reason was given for taking her for questioning.
Olorunyomi was interrogated by military intelligence agents as to
the whereabouts of her husband Dapo, a journalist who has
political asylum in the United States of America. She was also
asked to show them where Bayo Onanuga, the editor of “The NEWS”
who is in hiding, lives, but she told them she did not know.
Upon her release, Olorunyomi was asked to report every day to
Military Intelligence Headquarters, instead of twice a week, as
she was previously required to do after she was detained earlier
this year (see IFEX alert). Military intelligence agents also
kept her house keys.
