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Published 7 May 2021
A journalist, Sunday Ode, who was arrested and detained on the orders of the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, recalls his ordeal in this interview with
OLALEKAN ADETAYO
It was learnt that you recently had an encounter with some policemen. When was this and where?
My name is Egena Sunday Ode. I am a journalist based in Abuja. Yes, I had a bitter encounter with some policemen on Friday, April 30, 2021, near the popular AYA roundabout in Abuja around 5.30pm.
How did it happen?
Around 3pm that day, I received a distress call from my cousin, Johnson Ubeh, that he was being held by some police personnel over an alleged contract that he failed to execute. The policemen had earlier pulled him out of his shop on the pretext that they were going to give him a contract. But when he went out to meet them, they changed the story to failure to deliver on a contractual agreement.
Sunday Egena Odeh, a state house correspondent of Peoples Daily, an Abuja-based newspaper, has reportedly been arrested by officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).