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Nigerian Reporter Stopped From Filing On Governor Sullivan Chime’s Health by mutiply: 7:48am On Dec 19, 2012
State security agents in the Southeast state
of Enugu blocked a reporter from filing a
story Saturday evening about the health
status of Governor Sullivan Chime, who
hasn’t been seen for several months. The Committee to Protect Journalists
Tuesday condemned this act of crude
censorship. At about 11:30 p.m. local time Saturday,
seven plainclothes men accosted Ozioma
Ubabukoh, a reporter with private media
group Punch Newspapers , at the entrance of his home in Trans-Ekulu in the southeastern state of Enugu , according to local journalists and news reports . Mr. Ubabukoh told CPJ the men identified
themselves as agents of Nigeria’s State
Security Service (SSS) and seized his
telephone before ordering him to take them
into his home. Two of the men threatened to
“rough him up” if he didn’t cooperate, Ubabukoh said. The agents confiscated and searched his
laptop and ransacked his home, according to
Mr. Ubabukoh. They told him their mission was to prevent
him filing a story about Enugu state Gov.
Sullivan Chime, who has not been seen
publicly for three months. Other publications reported Saturday, without citing sources, that Chime had died in India. Mr. Ubabukoh had previously written articles on Chime’s ill health, including one published October 14 which brought the situation to public attention. State commissioner of information Chuks
Ugwoke dismissed that story as “outright falsehood” and claimed the governor was on
vacation, but he has still not been seen
publicly. At about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the agents told
the journalist to retrieve his laptop and
phone from under his car, Mr. Ubabukoh
said. “State security agents have no business
censoring news coverage, and they certainly
have no right to use force and intimidation
against a reporter doing his job,” said CPJ
Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed
Keita from New York. “Nigerian officials should publicly repudiate this crude effort to
keep an important story from citizens.” Mr. Ugwoke did not respond to CPJ’s
requests for comment, while SSS
spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar declined to
comment. Christopher Isiguzo, vice president of the
Nigeria Union of Journalists’ southeast
zone, told CPJ the union would file a petition
with the Police and State Security Service
over Ubabukoh’s case. Ubabukoh had also reported that police officers attached to Gov. Chime’s wife
attacked and threatened to shoot Mike
Agada, a photojournalist with the News
Agency of Nigeria, on October 26 as he tried
to take pictures at a funeral ceremony she
attended.
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Re: Nigerian Reporter Stopped From Filing On Governor Sullivan Chime’s Health by Emusan(m): 8:01am On Dec 19, 2012
What did you expect fake people. Ordinary 5k chinko fone can video which i believe none of them is using chinko. If them like let them continue to hide him one-day-day his tenure wil end.
Re: Nigerian Reporter Stopped From Filing On Governor Sullivan Chime’s Health by mutiply: 8:14am On Dec 19, 2012
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Emusan: What did you expect fake people. Ordinary 5k chinko fone can video which i believe none of them is using chinko. If them like let them continue to hide him one-day-day his tenure wil end.
how can a govenor be on vacation for 3 good months? why not come out and say the truth so that people could help,once the head is rotten,the body starts to die,patience did sumtin like this so am nt suprised if a govenor will do same.

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