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Journalist Petitions Police
Authorities Over Alleged Death Threats
Emmanuel Ugwu, a correspondent for
ThisDay newspaper in Enugu State in south eastern Nigeria, has
petitioned the Nigerian Police over alleged death threats following a
story he wrote for his newspaper about an assault on census enumerators in
the ongoing housing and population census in the country.
In a petition to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Ugwu said
following a story he wrote about a violent attack on census enumerators in
the town of Amankanu in the state, he started receiving phone calls
threatening to trace him and kill him if he did not retract the story.
He said a man who simply identified himself as Alex called him at about
9.18 pm on 24 March 2005, accusing him of being hired to write news
stories tarnishing the image of Amankanu and giving him two days within
which to retract the story he wrote.
Ugwu said the man threatened that if by 26 March 2006, he failed to write
a retraction, he would be fished out and killed.
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