Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has received orders to arrest Samuel Ogundipe, a journalist with Premium Times for writing an exclusive report which exposed a rift between the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno and Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, sources familiar with the development told SIGNAL on Saturday.

Ogundipe’s report detailed how Monguno accused Kyari of undue and dangerous interference on matters bordering on national security and subsequently fired a warning memo to all service chiefs to desist from taking further directives from Kyari.

In the letter first made public by Premium Times, Monguno said Kyari’s directives to service chiefs were sometimes issued without the knowledge much less approval of the president, a practice he said has added to the government’s inability to contain insecurity.

The journalist who is now very concerned about his saftety has gone into hiding having received threats and information about being arrested by the DSS to extract from him details of his source.

“My email account was hacked yesterday. I have been told that they are looking for me to get the source who leaked the letter to me”, the journalist told SIGNAL.

Ogundipe is well known for breaking reports on matters of national security, one of which led to his arrest and detention by the Nigerian Police in 2018 for refusing to reveal his source.

Former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu also confirmed the development in a tweet.

http://www.signalng.com/breaking-dss-moves-to-arrest-ogundipe-journalist-who-leaked-nsas-letter-on-abba-kyari/

Chidi Odinkalu
@ChidiOdinkalu

#Breaking: #Nigeria's State Security operatives are looking to arrest @SamuelOgundipe & extract from him the source(s) of his journalistic reporting on the feud between the NSA, Chief of Staff, & the Chief of Army Staff.

#LeaveSamOgundipeAlone
#JournalismIsNotACrime

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChidiOdinkalu/status/1233709299509211136

Journalists are trying.

Why are they always trying to gag the media

Kyari should look for the leak by himself and stop harassing Journalists doing their job.

Daura Secret Service doing stupid things as usual. Instead of Buhari to move against those undermining his authority, his príck goes eréct at the mere mention of journalists

Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

Shit hole country!

They hate Ogundipe

He is the one that brought down the former finance minister and got her sacked

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tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

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Our security forces enjoy arresting unarmed civilians.

Tyrant in the throne

The guy should run oooo and stay in hiding till Buhari completes his tenure

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

Oh shut up

We should protect this guy, one day he will reveal a big secret that will empower masses to rise against clueless governments like this one

Our security forces are very good at harassing, intimidating and arresting innocent people.

VillageParrot:


Ogundipe's report detailed how Monguno accused Kyari of undue and dangerous interference on matters bordering on national security and subsequently fired a warning memo to all service chiefs to desist from taking further directives from Kyari.

http://www.signalng.com/breaking-dss-moves-to-arrest-ogundipe-journalist-who-leaked-nsas-letter-on-abba-kyari/

Shay nah lie or nah true ?


DSS Zone B, shame !

How can you arrest a journalist doing his job?

The guy should apply for asylum. God has blessed him.

The question remains that, was the expose on the letter true or false? Have Abba Kyari/Babagana Mungonu denied the content? Stupid people always leaving the relevant issue of providing good governance to trivialities.

CSTR2:
How can you arrest a journalist doing his job?

The guy should apply for asylum. God has blessed him.

Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No. 4,1984


Drafted on March 29,1984, Decree No. 4 was the most dreaded, most repressive and the last press law enacted in Nigeria. It was promulgated during the military regime of Major General Buhari which did not take kindly to press criticisms.

The law was drafted to punish authors of false statements and reports that exposed the Buhari administration and or its officials to ridicule or contempt.

Section 1, sub-sections (i), (ii) and (iii) of the law - the most formidable section - provided that:
Any person who publishes in any form, whether written or otherwise, any message,rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, statement or report which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Military Government or the Government of a state or public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

Any station for wireless telegraphy which conveys or transmits any sound or visual message, rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Government or the Government of a state or a public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

It shall be an offence under this Decree for a newspaper or wireless telegraphy station in Nigeria to publish or transmit any message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular stating that any public officer has in any manner been engaged in corrupt practices or has in any manner comiptly enriched himself or any other person {Gazette, 1984).


The law also conferred on the Head of State the power to ban a newspaper and to revoke the license of a wireless telegraph station in any part of the federation if such action was construed to be in the interest of the nation.

Section 2, sub-sections (i) and (ii) of the law provided that:

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted circulation in Nigeria of a newspaper is or may be detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by order published in the Gazette, prohibit the circulation in the federation or in any part thereof, as the case may require, of that newspaper; and, unless any other period is prescribed in the code, the prohibition shall continue for a period of twelve months unless sooner revoked or extended, as the case may require.

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted existence in Nigeria of any wireless telegraphy station is detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by an order published in the Gazette (a) revoke the license to such wireless telegraphy station under the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1961; or (b) order the closure or forfeiture to the Federal Military Government, as the case may be, of the wireless telegraphy station concerned (Gazette 1984).

hisexcellency34:
The guy should run oooo and stay in hiding till Buhari completes his tenure

Not everyone is a coward

12Monkeys:


Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No. 4,1984


Drafted on March 29,1984, Decree No. 4 was the most dreaded, most repressive and the last press law enacted in Nigeria. It was promulgated during the military regime of Major General Buhari which did not take kindly to press criticisms.

The law was drafted to punish authors of false statements and reports that exposed the Buhari administration and or its officials to ridicule or contempt.

Section 1, sub-sections (i), (ii) and (iii) of the law - the most formidable section - provided that:
Any person who publishes in any form, whether written or otherwise, any message,rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, statement or report which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Military Government or the Government of a state or public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

Any station for wireless telegraphy which conveys or transmits any sound or visual message, rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Government or the Government of a state or a public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

It shall be an offence under this Decree for a newspaper or wireless telegraphy station in Nigeria to publish or transmit any message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular stating that any public officer has in any manner been engaged in corrupt practices or has in any manner comiptly enriched himself or any other person {Gazette, 1984).


The law also conferred on the Head of State the power to ban a newspaper and to revoke the license of a wireless telegraph station in any part of the federation if such action was construed to be in the interest of the nation.

Section 2, sub-sections (i) and (ii) of the law provided that:

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted circulation in Nigeria of a newspaper is or may be detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by order published in the Gazette, prohibit the circulation in the federation or in any part thereof, as the case may require, of that newspaper; and, unless any other period is prescribed in the code, the prohibition shall continue for a period of twelve months unless sooner revoked or extended, as the case may require.

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted existence in Nigeria of any wireless telegraphy station is detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by an order published in the Gazette (a) revoke the license to such wireless telegraphy station under the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1961; or (b) order the closure or forfeiture to the Federal Military Government, as the case may be, of the wireless telegraphy station concerned (Gazette 1984).

This law is a military law.
That is why it is referred to the head of state.
The president is not a head of state.

You cannot arrest a journalist doing his job.
Trump would have jailed the whole of CNN.

E don happen

This is what we call fake news. In this type of scenarios, its either the journalist wants cheap popularity or the Office of NSA spin doctors, want to gain public sympathy & support, once they expect a counter attack.

Let's do some analytical reasoning, who stands to benefit from the hashtag #LeaveSamOgundipeAlone# JournalismIsNotACrime, ?. We don't have to heat up the polity, with Corona virus at hand, let's stop fake news.

Lawless country where nothing works. You are arresting a journalist for doing his job. Bunch of stupid people. Nonsense and Buhari!

Hmmm......I just pity the man

That was my biggest fear

Perfect opportunity for this journalist to run to Canada and be granted asylum.

Was the story true..........

Sad

@tsephanyah or whatever



Must you and your so called dead vulture meat seller of a boyfriend always spew rubbish... so nigerians knowing the truth about the silent war going on is wrong or you just want to cover up the garbage of your slave master.......
Journalist are free to uncover the truth in any Democratic Nation but under the reign of this pharaoh and his military mindset they want to bury the truth at all cost so Nigerians wont know what's happening...Smh at you and the other zombies
Sensitivity knock you there...

Ok