Gbaja asks security agencies to find missing Vanguard reporter

Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, has asked security agencies to ensure the safe return of Tordue Salem, a reporter with Vanguard newspaper.

Salem, a house of representatives correspondent, was declared missing after he was last seen on October 13.

Last week, members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) took to the streets in Abuja to call on the authorities to ensure his safe return.

Speaking on Monday, Gbajabiamila asked security operatives to intensify efforts in locating the missing journalist.

“I do know that the Vanguard correspondent in the house of representatives, Tordue Salem, who has been missing for some weeks now is still yet to be found,” he said.

“I have been in contact with that leadership of the press corps and the authority that is doing this investigation since this matter came to light.

“I want to encourage security agencies not to relent in their effort to locate Tordue and bring him back to the house. I see the press corps as part of the institution and anything that torches one, torches the rest of us.”

Gbajabiamila said the work of journalists goes a long way to “shape the perception of the house of representatives and correct any misconception in the public sphere”.

“You have a critical role in rephrasing the narrative of the public about the house of representatives and in giving direction to the legislature and in propelling policies of the government. That is why those of you who practice in the institution is referred to as the fourth estate of the realm,” he said.

“The house of representatives and indeed the national assembly, like every legislature in the world is perhaps the most misunderstood institution. Some of the misunderstandings are unintentional.

“Some of the misunderstandings is sometimes political. Unfortunately, some of the misunderstanding

“It falls therefore on members of this committee to begin to educate the public to change the narrative because sometimes, we are not aware or are ignorant of unforeseen consequences of what will happen when a small committee or an institution like the national assembly is understood or misjudged.

“It has the potential of snowballing or having a larger and more dangerous effect on our democracy. That is why we look at the committee from the prism of your work which is strategic to the survival of democracy.”

Source: https://www.thecable.ng/gbaja-asks-security-agencies-to-find-missing-vanguard-reporter

We pray for his safe return back home. Amen

Oppps mehhn!
For this 9ja
I hope they find him alive

Missing for weeks!! Insecurity at it's peak.

HOLLY GRAM WTF MAN

Which security men is he talking about when more than half of the security agencies are now attach to politician's

ok

Why do I have a feeling the reporter was kidnapped by one of the DSS or the Nigerian Army?

I would have added SARS to the mix if they were fully operational but they are not.

(I added "fully" because SARS is still operational but works lowkey, are not officially called SARS, and are only interested in separating people from their money these days instead of going after criminals, which they did on a part-time basis before.)

Gbajabiamila would have done justice a lot of good by asking the Nigerian Army and DSS to check their cells in case they mistakenly picked the journalist up.

But let's wait for the next few days. Things are about to become interesting.

Check DSS dungeons or other security agency's cell

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I'm about to locate him with prophecy now.. Just need ten believer in the house to say amen..

Kuku tell your guys to bring him out from where they keep him.......

Buhari will soon miss.

This country ain’t damn like this before APC takeover the power, Yet unfortunate idiots people still cue under sun to vote in the brain dead old man for second time smh chaiiiiiz. There was a nation called Nigeria in 2015 RIP

Nice..

This one na just propaganda

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Tordue must be found. Nice dude, was my mate in year 1 at Unijos.
DSS & the Police are the usual suspects.

Hope is not Suya yet.

Another Jamal Khashoggi

this country nawa oooooo

securities Agencies? how many kidnapped securities officials had been rescued by these securities Agencies?

Na people wey carry am dey find am.... Dis is naija.

All these noise is of no effect from a rubber stamp. What will you do if the police refuses to do their job? Query the police chief or buhari?
I pray for the safe return of the journalist. Everyone is on their own in that God forsaken country!

They should send 10Million to my account and give me 48hrs I will locate him even if he is in the moon or under the earth... I will locate him.. Bunch of amateurs just collecting free money

Tomahawk99:
Tordue must be found. Nice dude, was my mate in year 1 at Unijos.
DSS & the Police are the usual suspects.

he was my secondary school classmate

This is how they would have asked them to find Justice Odili

MHR Speaker did not try at all when press has been shouting for over 2 weeks about sudden disappearance of Vanguard journalist in NASS.