KANO, Nigeria (AP) -- Police in northern Nigeria say they've arrested three radio journalists over the killings of at least nine female polio vaccinators, saying their on-air discussion about rumors around the vaccine sparked the attack. Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris said Tuesday that the journalists, who work for Wazobia FM, will be charged with culpable homicide over the killings Friday. Officials with the radio station could not be immediately reached for comment. The radio station aired a program last week, describing how one of its journalists was manhandled by government officials as he recorded a man refusing to allow his children to be vaccinated. The radio program later discussed longtime rumors in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north that the vaccine sterilizes young girls. Nigeria is one of three countries where polio remains endemic.

gramci: Not surprised, aboki's and their ways

jeddyMay: excuse me!!! is it now a crime to discuss things happening around us on air?

lacasa:


So police too na aboki get am


#.. Sound Education is truly lacking in Nigeria

#.. Sorry u hia, na condition cos µя plight

Igwe.:
Why hasn't anybody arrested Pastor Bakare for shouting wild wild north during the 2011 presidential campaign?

disboy:


Is that why they should discuss that "the vaccine sterilizes young girls'.If educated pple are talking like this then jow do u expect the ignorant 2 behave?

hotwax: Police were rigt to arrest them. They caused the death of these innocent health workers.
They instigated those alimanjiris to kill based on false rumor.

They are irresponsible element and a disgrace to Journalism.

Imagine a Journalist coming on air in Lagos and telling people to stop buying onions, that onions coming from the North are poisoned.

What will you think of that jounalist ?

The police in Kano yesterday arrested three staff members of Wazobia FM 95.1 Kano and a former director general, Kano State censorship board, Rabo Abdulkareem over a radio programme which may have instigated the killing of eight female and one male polio vaccinators.
LEADERSHIP recalls that on Tuesday 6, Radio Wazobia, Kano on its popular Hausa magazine programme ‘ Sandar girma’ allegedly aired a particular scandal about the refusal of polio vaccinators to access the house of Rabo Abdulkareem. They also shared a conflicting stance about the polio vaccine which they believe was laced with chemicals that were likely to cause infertility and hence reduce population.
In the wake of the event, unknown gunmen stormed polio vaccine centres at Tarauni Local Government in the state killing nine female polio vaccinators and injuring many.
A member of staff of Wazobia FM, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told LEADERSHIP that Malam Gama Muhammad, Mubarak Muhammad and the host of the programme ‘Yakubu Musa Fagge’ were arrested by the team of policemen.
He confirmed to us that as at the time of filing this report, Gama Muhammad has been released.
Also, a source close to the police revealed that the federal government has interest in the arrest.
LEADERSHIP gathered that Rabo Abdulkareem may be indicted over his alleged view that “I will always be defiant to Polio vaccination because nobody will convince me that it wasn’t an act that goes against the will of Allah and it wasn’t a deliberate western conspiracy against our children.”
In continuation of the fight against polio, the government of Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is executing the programme in stages.
The state government constituted a committee of medical, legal and jurisprudence experts to study and investigate the contents of polio vaccine.
When the committee finally submitted its report to the chairman of the state council of ulama who initially condemned the polio vaccine he made a quick u-turn and announced that “after careful investigation we have come to the conclusion that there is nothing harmful with polio vaccine.”

olaezebala: Charge those Moda4kers for homicide quick. Those morons know how sensitive and fool headed some of my brothers here in the North can be. U don't joke about some things in the North and those EEdiots journalist know. U don't just go on air and joke about the Prophet in the North and claim freedom of journalism. So also goes for joking about Vacination harming an Aboki's wife. This should serve as a lesson to other silly journalist that freedom of the press should not cloud their brains. When u are in Rome, u do as the Romans will do