Reports just reaching DAILY POST has it that the Governor of
Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El’Rufai has ordered the arrest of Mr. Midat Joseph,
a Kaduna based correspondent of Leadership newspapers.
He was arrested by security operatives in his house at the early
hours of Thursday.
According to sources, the journalist who is now in detention
in Kaduna was said to have published a report considered critical of the state
government.
This development has brought to six, the number of
journalists arrested on the orders of the state governor since his assumption
of office on May 2015.
However, calls put across to El’Rufai’s Chief Press
Secretary for confirmation did not yield results as his line was switched off.
By Samson Atekojo Usman
