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Security Forces Shut
Radio and TV Stations Days to Elections
On April 11, 2007, three days before
elections for state governors and state houses of Assemblies, two sister
broadcast stations Link FM and Gotel TV were shut down by the security
forces without a warrant.
Eight members of the security forces
burst into the studios of Link FM and GTV in Ketu area of Lagos at about
6 p.m. (local time) ordering all staff on duty to vacate the premises
and then placing seals over the entrances.
They said they were acting on "an order
from above." The studios were still closed the following morning and
staff were not allowed to enter.
The two stations began broadcasting
just a few weeks before the incident and their director, Stanley Okoye,
said he did not know why they had suddenly been closed.
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