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SSS Arrests Channels TV Sunrise Daily Presenters over Anti-Buhari Interview

  • Date of Occurrence
    August 26, 2021
  • State/Country
    Lagos, Nigeria
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Security agents this morning arrested Channels TV Sunrise Daily presenters over purported anti-Buhari interviews.

NewsmakersNG learnt that Chamberlain Usoh and Kayode Okikiolu were picked up by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) this morning.

Their arrest is reportedly connected with interviews with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State during which he accused President Muhammadu Buhari of promoting a Fulanisation agenda, and another guest, Commodore Kunle Olawunmi (rtd) who revealed that people who are high up in the Buhari’s government are sponsors of Boko Haram.

Sunrise Daily’s lead anchor and producer, Chamberlain Usoh, who confirmed the development to NewsmakersNG on the telephone, said he did not know yet where they were being taken to.

Details later….

 

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  • State/Country
    Lagos
  • Perpetrator
    SSS
  • Source
    https://www.newsmakerslive.org/breaking-sss-arrests-channels-tvs-sunrise-daily-presenters-over-anti-buhari-interview/
Location
  • Lagos, Nigeria

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Region
  • South West
Rights & Freedom Violated
  • Press Freedom
Gender of Victim(s)
  • Male
Mode of Attacks
  • Forced Disappearances, Unlawful Arrests and Detention

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