As acknowledged by a source, Mr Tukur Mamu, a preferred newspaper writer in Kaduna has been arrested.
Desert Herald’s writer was apprehended by 6 armed Nigerian law enforcement officials yesterday from his workplace in Kaduna round 2pm.
Mamu's arrest was acknowledged.to be sequel to the orders of a magistrates’ court docket in a case filed by the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, and one Ibrahim Bamoi in opposition to the writer.
Tukur Mamu has been having an operating battle with Mohammed over his (Mamu) insistence on publishing an e book entitled “FCT Administration: The Rot Within!” which is in regards to the administration of Mohammed because the FCT minister.
Mohammed had filed a case in opposition to the propriety of the publication of the e book earlier than an Abuja excessive court docket which continues to be pending earlier than the court docket.
It was additionally gathered that
when Mamu’s lawyer, household and members of workers went to the police headquarters in Kaduna to hunt his launch, they had been advised that the writer had been moved to the Police CID in Garki, Abuja.
A committee had been inaugurated on June 27, 2013, by the NUJ nationwide president, Muhammad Garba, to look into the matter, following a petition submitted to the NUJ by the particular assistant, media, to the FCT minister, Mr Nosike Ogbuenyi, in opposition to the writer.
But Mamu had, in an open letter dated June 29 to the NUJ nationwide president and printed on web page 17 of Leadership Newspaper on Monday, July 1, given some circumstances which should be met earlier than he may seem earlier than the committee.
The letter reads partially, “That for me to participate in the proceedings, the NUJ should reconsider the composition of the three-man committee for the sake of fairness, transparency and to give credibility to the outcome of their report. Only one out of the three members, Mr Akin Orimolade, is independent of government (working with a private paper) while the other two are currently under the payroll of federal and state governments.”
“Membership of such a sensitive committee, with the desperation and resources at the disposal of our detractors, should be highly independent stakeholders with years of experience and record of proven integrity and honesty.”
“I also suggest, but not as part of my condition to participate, that your good office should increase the members of the committee as three members only can easily be manipulated and may not do a thorough job within only one week of their mandate. There is no justification rushing to conclude a job of this nature; doing so will not only create suspicion but will be detrimental to fairness and justice. The committee should be given reasonable time to perform to the satisfaction of the two parties and Nigerians.”
“That I will accept to participate and talk only in the presence of the stated petitioner, Sen. Bala Muhammad. As a fundamental right, I want to sit face to face with the petitioner in person to enable me ask him questions on the contents of his so-called petition against me to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of his allegations. That the hearing should be done in any secured place within Abuja or Kaduna and that the NUJ should make a proper arrangement for my personal security during the proceedings because, ever since the onslaught began, there have been several threats to my life by the agents of the petitioner.”
“I want to assure your good office that as long as all the above observations and conditions, which are purely fundamental human rights and issues of due process and law that will benefit all the contending parties are taken into cognizance, approved and applied and I am duly communicated by your office in that regard with reasonable notice due to my very tight schedules and engagements within and outside the country, I will be ready to answer any allegation in your historic hearing.”