If you have not heard about Jones Abiri, it is high time you did.

Jones Abiri, a Nigerian journalist was first arrested in 2016 by Nigeria’s Department of State Service (DSS). According to a few media reports, Abiri, who is the publisher of Weekly Source newspaper, a local tabloid, is a journalist, who was allegedly arrested based on a story his platform published.

An online platform, Premium Times, recently reported that on July 21, 2016, a dozen heavily-armed agents of the DSS, arrested Jones Abiri, outside his office at 288 Chief Melford Okilo Expressway, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

They came in three cars, did not read him his rights and did not produce a warrant before handcuffing him, raiding his office, and taking him into custody.

According to the Bayelsa State chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), John Angese; “I was there when he (Jones Abiri) was taken away. I tried to ask what was the problem but I was rebuffed with their guns. I was threatened to be shot if I went any closer. Everybody was scared.”

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), The security service emailed a statement to Nigerian journalists on July 23, 2016, accusing Jones Abiri of being the leader of the separatist group Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force.

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So sad .. God help Nigerians please

Can the NUJ confront this lawless government that have kept one of its own in incarceration unjustly without trial To sad that the journalists among the aids in the presidency have abandon one of its own.
What about the human right groups & we common Nigerians.Lets fight or we will also be victim one day.

The NUJ is silent and who can blame them?

just watch how people like 'DEmented O MELOn' would come & provide justification for this.


fact is, those vehemently praising pmb are people who have questionable traits.

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