{"id":19936,"date":"2011-12-23T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/police-arrest-journalists-family-over-story-on-suswam\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:50:56","slug":"police-arrest-journalists-family-over-story-on-suswam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/police-arrest-journalists-family-over-story-on-suswam\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest journalist\u2019s family over story on Suswam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Makurdi\u2014 Benue Police Command, Wednesday, raided the house of Mr. Henry Ibya, a Makurdi-based journalist, taking away his wife, child and 60-year old uncle over a story on Governor Gabriel Suswam\u2019s wife, published in Wednesday\u2019s edition of the Western Premier newspaper.<\/p>\n

The story chronicled how the governor\u2019s wife allegedly misappropriated N100 million meant for the celebration of an occasion tagged Celebrating the Benue woman.<\/p>\n

It was learnt that the publication set the journalist on a collision path with the government, which ordered his arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n

Family sources said Ibya\u2019s house was raided at 9pm on Wednesday. They said the police came in two vehicles and whisked away the journalist\u2019s family members.<\/p>\n

Colleagues react<\/p>\n

Journalists in Makurdi expressed dismay at the arrest of their colleague\u2019s wife, saying it was wrong to visit the sins of a person on another.<\/p>\n

They said the action was capable of severing the relationship between the police and the media in the state.<\/p>\n

Police story<\/p>\n

The police, however, denied detaining the journalist\u2019s wife, child and elderly uncle. They explained that the woman was invited for questioning but was never put in the cell. Mr. Anthony Njoku, Assistant Commissioner of Police, CID, told journalists that the police only invited the woman for questioning and never detained her.<\/p>\n

He said the woman had been released together with the child and uncle.<\/p>\n

He, however, appealed to journalists to prevail on the fleeing journalist to report himself to the police to answer charges of publishing a vexatious item about the governor\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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