The management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust Newspapers, has called on the Nigerien authorities to release the Daily Trust Deputy Editor, Lawan Danjuma, who was arrested in Agadez on Saturday.
In a statement issued by the Editor-in-Chief of Media Trust, Mannir Dan-Ali, the company said it expected nothing short of the immediate release of the journalist.
It was learnt that Danjuma had gone to the town, which sits on the edge of the Sahara desert, to investigate how thousands of youths from Nigeria, and other West African countries, make the perilous journey across the desert into Libya in their quest to go to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea.
The statement said, “As an experienced cross-border reporter, Lawan Danjuma sought and got the relevant documentation from the Kano Consulate Office of the Nigerien embassy, after stating his mission to Agadez.
“It was the same documentation that he used at different check points including the Nigeria/Niger border post at Kongolom, Katsina State, and was only stopped and arrested on reaching Agadez.
“We see the arrest as an infringement of his right as an ECOWAS citizen and have since reached the Nigerien authorities to ask for the release of the reporter. We are shocked that more than 24 hours after the arrest, he is still being held, and his freedom is being curtailed.”
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