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Press Statement by Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom, CWPPF on Attacks on Critical Media and Investigative Journalism in Nigeria.Press Statement by Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom, CWPPF on Attacks on Critical Media and Investigative Journalism in Nigeria.December , PTCIJ Media Release The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom, CWPPF, condemns, in the strongest terms, the growing trend of attacks on journalists and media houses which have published investigative reports about corruption allegedly perpetrated by government officials.

It is a dangerous trend that threatens the vibrancy of the country’s media and its democracy.On Monday Buy Bulk SMS Service  December , Fisayo Soyombo, the Founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, FIJ, was arrested and detained at the Police Headquarters in Abuja by the Monitoring Unit of the Inspector General of Police, IGP. The journalist was detained over an investigative report, which exposed corruption in the management of over N billion appropriated for building transit camps for police officers across the country.

He was released on bail after over six hours in police detention while investigations into alleged charges of “criminal defamation and cyber stalking” against him have been postponed to mid – January, when Soyombo might be invited back for questioning.The allegations of criminal defamation and cyber stalking were made by Joseph Egbunike, an Assistant Inspector general of Police, AIG, who was fingered in FIJ’s report as the arrowhead of the alleged misappropriation of over N billion for police transit camp projects in Benue, Bauchi, Plateau, Katsina and Kano State, when he was Commissioner of Police in charge of Budget and Finance.