On Tuesday, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Kogi council, dragged the State Security Service, SSS, to a Federal High Court in Lokoja over ‘unlawful’ arrest and continued detention of its member, Friday Ogungbemi. The NUJ filed the suit on behalf of the journalist, seeking for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights and N5 million damages for unlawful incarceration and infringement on his fundamental rights.

According to NUJ, Mr Ogungbemi, a Lokoja-based journalist and publisher, was arrested by the SSS for an offensive publication in the November 23 – December 15, 2016, edition of the Policy and Lawmakers magazine.

The NUJ’s counsel, J.U. Usman, filed the motion seeking for a court order to enforce the rights being infringed upon by the respondent’s continued detention of Mr Ogungbemi at the DSS detention facility “which is unreasonable, illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.”

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