(MRA/IFEX) – The Nigerian police have summoned Kingsley Emeruwa, a reporter with the daily tabloid “The Sun”, to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office in Abuja on 14 March 2005 regarding a story published by the newspaper last month. The story, titled, “Wabara forged tax receipt, says political adversary”, was published on the […]
(MRA/IFEX) – The Nigerian police have summoned Kingsley Emeruwa, a reporter with the daily tabloid “The Sun”, to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office in Abuja on 14 March 2005 regarding a story published by the newspaper last month.
The story, titled, “Wabara forged tax receipt, says political adversary”, was published on the front page of the newspaper on 24 February. Senator Adolphus Wabara, the subject of the story, is president of the Senate and the third-ranking political office holder in Nigeria, after President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
On 9 March, “The Sun” editor Femi Adesina said that Vincent Ojo, the head of the Special Fraud Unit, D Department, of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja, asked the journalist to report to Chief Superintendent of Police John Omoogun at the force’s CID office in Abuja, ostensibly to assist in the investigation into the matter.
