A journalist named Daniel Ojukwu from the Foundation for Investigative Journalism was reportedly taken by the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police.
Ojukwu is currently being kept at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, in Lagos State, according to FIJ.
He disappeared on Wednesday and his phone was off, so no one could contact him or know where he was.
A day after he went missing, FIJ reported him missing at the police stations in the area where Ojukwu was supposed to be.
However, on Friday, a private investigator hired by FIJ traced the location of his phones to Isheri Olofin, a place FIJ now believes is where the police took him from.
The FIJ report says Ojukwu’s family found out he was being held at Panti and that authorities were accusing him of breaking the 2015 Cybercrime Act.
A relative who visited him told FIJ that the authorities refused to provide contact details of the Investigating Police Officer as the case was beyond Lagos jurisdiction.
The family member informed FIJ that the officers who arrested him are from the IG Monitoring Team and said they planned to move him and others to Abuja after arresting other people on their watchlist in Lagos.
The Nigeria Police Force has not commented on Ojukwu’s abduction.
His abduction happened when Nigerian journalists, on Thursday, took part in World Press Freedom Day with journalists worldwide.
FIJ mentioned that on the same day last year, the Area F Police in Lagos arrested Ojukwu for intervening when they were mistreating a driver.
According to FIJ, when the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre questioned Bukky Shonibare, the chairman of FIJ’s Board of Trustees, at their office in Abuja in March, they had mentioned FIJ’s story about Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the then Senior Special Assistant on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs) to the President, paying N147.1 million to an account linked to Enseno Global Ventures, an Abuja-based restaurant, for building a classroom.
Seven days later, Ademuyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer, told ‘Politics Today’, a Channels TV programme hosted by Seun Okinbaloye, that there were “two or three weighty allegations” against FIJ and its founder, ‘Fisayo Soyombo.
