The Nigeria National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to facilitate the freedom of an abducted journalist, Segun Olatunji, from his captors.
The Editor of FirstNews, Olatunji was whisked away from his home in Lagos by armed men in two unmarked vans 12 days ago.
It was learnt that the men, two of whom wore military camouflage, introduced themselves as officers of the Nigerian Army and forced Olatunji to go with them.
They declined to tell his wife, who witnessed the abduction, where the journalist was being taken.
In a statement by its President Musikilu Mojeed and Legal Adviser/Chair Tobi Soniyi, IPI Nigeria appealed to the President to direct the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, to produce Olatunji.
The institute said it had it on good authority that Olatunji was in the custody of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), an agency under the command of Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Undiandeye.
