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SSS
Arrest, Release Newspaper Bureau Chief
On June 1, 2006, Mr. Tony
Eluemunor, the Abuja bureau chief of Daily Independent was arrested by
men of the State Security Service (SSS) Nigeria’s secret intelligence
agency, on the orders of the agency’s Director General, Colonel Kayode
Are.
He was question for about
20 minutes in connection with a front page news story published by Daily
Independent on June 1, 2006 titled “Gusau sacked over contract”. The
story alleged that Major General Aliyu Gusau Rtd, the former National
Security Adviser, was relieved of his position on May 31, 2006 due to
disagreements with President Olusegun Obasanjo over a military contract
to purchase military weapons for combating insecurity in the volatile
Niger delta region of Nigeria.
Tony was released after
questioning
The newspaper traced the
source of the information to the website of an Israeli newspaper, ‘Haarretz’.
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