A journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Daniel Ojukwu, has been reportedly abducted by the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police.
Ojukwu is currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, in Lagos State, FIJ reports.
Ojukwu was said to have gone missing on Wednesday and was unreachable as his numbers were switched off and his whereabouts unknown to colleagues, family and friends.
Twenty-four hours after he went missing, FIJ made a missing person report at police stations in the area where Ojukwu was headed.
However, on Friday, a private detective hired by FIJ tracked the last active location of his phones to an address in Isheri Olofin, a location FIJ now believes was where the police originally picked him up.
According to the FIJ report, Ojukwu’s family learned of his detention at Panti and understood that authorities were accusing him of violating the 2015 Cybercrime Act.
A relative who visited him told FIJ that the authorities refused to provide contact details of the Investigating Police Officer on jurisdictional grounds as the case was beyond Lagos.
The Police are yet to react to the reports.
