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Police Summon ‘The Sun’ Newspaper
Reporter
LAGOS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005: The
Nigerian Police have summoned Mr. Kingsley Emeruwa, a correspondent of the
daily tabloid newspaper, "The Sun", to report at the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) office in Abuja on March 14, 2005 over a
story published by the newspaper last month.
The story titled "Wabara forged tax receipt,
says political adversary", was published on the front page of the
newspaper on February 24, 2005. Senator Adolphus Wabara, the subject of
the story, is the President of the Senate in the National Assembly, and
the third ranking political office holder in Nigeria after President
Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The Editor of "The Sun" newspaper, Femi
Adesina, said yesterday that Mr. Vincent Ojo, the head of the Special
Fraud Unit, D Department of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja, who issued
the invitation to Emeruwa, asked the correspondent to report on March 14
to the Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr. John Omoogun, at the Force CID
office in Abuja, ostensibly to assist them in their investigation into the
matter.
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