Fisayo Soyombo’s planned arrest, nauseating, appalling — AIED

The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development(AIED), has
described the alleged move by the Nigerian government to summarily
arrest an investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, for exposing
the rots and corruption in the Nigeria Prison Service and Police
Force as “nauseating” and “appalling”.

In a press release on Tuesday, signed by its Director of Media
and Publicity, Comrade O’Seun John, the organization chided the
Federal Government for going against its anti-corruption stand and
sliding into totalitarianism.

“We woke up today to a piece of disturbing news, one capable of
eroding every piece of civility in our country and knighting us as
nothing more than a Banana Republic.

“Mr. Fisayo Soyombo, the highly decorated investigative
journalist who has been at the forefront of exposing the rots in
our society is being surveyed for arrest by agents of the Federal
Government for once again exposing the massive corruption across
the Police and Prison Services in the country.

“The now viral undercover investigative work embarked upon by
Mr. Fisayo which exposure seems to have triggered some powerful
officers of the Prison and Police Services should be commended by
all progressive Nigerian. What Mr. Fisayo has done will take months
and huge resources to unearth should the federal government have
lived through its promise of ridding the system of corruption.

“Mr. Fisayo is a national hero that puts himself in dangerous
circumstances to protect whatever is left of the sanity of this
country. Instead of having him feared for his life and that of his
family, the federal government should be concentrating resources on
arresting and prosecuting all those who have turned our
institutions to barter.

“This planned arrest is distasteful, nauseating, appalling and
against every known convention of civility.

“In the words of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the work of a
journalist is not to report if Mr. A says the sky is black and Mr.
B says it is white, but to inspect carefully and report the truth.
Mr. Fisayo has done that and he should never be rewarded with
highhandedness.

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