(MRA/IFEX) – On 10 November 2006, operatives from the Lagos office of Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), raided the office of PostNet Communications, publishers of the “Southwest Post”, a weekly newspaper based in Lagos, and arrested the publisher and editor-in-chief, Dupe Ashama, and the entertainment editor, Taiwo Obatusin. According to Ipoola Akinlotan, […]
(MRA/IFEX) – On 10 November 2006, operatives from the Lagos office of Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), raided the office of PostNet Communications, publishers of the “Southwest Post”, a weekly newspaper based in Lagos, and arrested the publisher and editor-in-chief, Dupe Ashama, and the entertainment editor, Taiwo Obatusin.
According to Ipoola Akinlotan, the head of operations at PostNet Communications, five armed security agents from the SSS arrived at the newspaper’s offices at about 12:00 p.m. (local time) in a green van and began searching the premises of the publication house without saying for what it was they were looking.
At the end of the search, they took away copies of various editions of the newspaper, computer systems and other items which have not yet been ascertained.
The van, which the security agents initially parked a short distance away from the newspaper’s premises, was later driven to the front of the building and the seized materials loaded into it. The security agents also took Ashama and Obatusin with them.
Neither the government nor the SSS has given any reason for the action.
