The whereabouts of two journalists arrested by operatives of the State Security Services (SSS), in Kaduna are unknown more than 24 hours after they were picked up in a gestapo style on Monday.
The two Journalists, Aliyu Saleh and Awwal Musa, who work with Al-Mizan newspaper Kaduna, were abducted from their homes around 4 a.m. on Monday in Rigasa area of Kaduna.
The Editor in Chief of the paper, Mallam Ibrahim, had told our correspondent on phone? that the two journalists might have been arrested by the SSS in connection with a story ran by the paper last week in which it accused the Joint Task Force in Potiskum, Yobe State of abducting about 84 youth in the town. The whereabouts of the youth are still unknown.
Meanwhile, checks by LEADERSHIP, yesterday, indicated that security operatives also raided the house of the Editor-in-Chief on Monday afternoon. Mr. Ibrahim was lucky not to be in the house when the raid was carried out.
Editor of Al-Mizan was reported to have said that the operatives left a message for the Mr. Ibrahim through his wife that they would “continue to haunt him till eternity”.
The editor also said that all efforts to trace their colleagues and find out the reason for their arrest have been futile.
Efforts to reach the spokesperson of the SSS, Marilyn Ogar, have been unsuccessful as her telephone line could not be reached. The secret service is yet to state the reason behind the arrest of the journalists.
The Kaduna police have, however, said they were not responsible for the arrest of the journalists.
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