NUJ RAISES ALARM OVER EFCC’S ALLEGED HARASSMENT OF OGUN OFFICIALS, DEMANDS END TO PERSECUTION
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Zone B, has called on the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to urgently intervene and restrain its Ibadan Zonal Office from what it described as the alleged harassment and persecution of officials of the Ogun State Council of the union over a petition it considers frivolous and politically motivated. The union made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of its Zonal Executive Council (ZEC) meeting held at the NUJ Lagos State Council Secretariat. Zone B comprises the six South-West states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti. The NUJ leadership alleged that officials of the EFCC Ibadan Zonal Office had subjected members of the Ogun State Council executive to undue profiling, harassment and psychological distress in the course of investigating a petition purportedly submitted by a group identified as 'The Patriot', whose identity and membership the union said remained unknown. According to the commun...
