(MRA/IFEX) – Emmanuel Ugwu, a correspondent for “ThisDay” newspaper in Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, has lodged a complaint with the State Commissioner of Police over death threats he allegedly received following the publication of a story he wrote for his newspaper. The story was about an assault on census enumerators participating in the country’s […]
(MRA/IFEX) – Emmanuel Ugwu, a correspondent for “ThisDay” newspaper in Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, has lodged a complaint with the State Commissioner of Police over death threats he allegedly received following the publication of a story he wrote for his newspaper. The story was about an assault on census enumerators participating in the country’s ongoing housing and population census, which allegedly took place in the town of Amankanu.
In the complaint, Ugwu said he had received a phone call in which the caller threatened to track him down and kill him if he did not retract the story.
He said that a man who identified himself simply as “Alex” called him at about 9:18 p.m. (local time) on 24 March 2006. The caller accused him of being hired to write news stories tarnishing the image of Amankanu and gave him two days within which to publish a retraction, otherwise he would be “fished out” and killed.
