The Founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Fisayo Soyombo, has carpeted the Nigerian Army for revealing everything he told their personnel had been to suspected oil thieves, who he was investigating.
Soyombo, who spoke on Arise TV on Saturday, was arrested in the camp of the oil thieves by the Army alongside the bunkerers.
He said: “How can you grill me at the 6 Division and everything I told you, the illegal bunkerers were telling me.
“Every single thing.
“The real grouse of the army is that one: I did not carry them along.
“I would not deny that I have low trust for Nigerian public institutions.
“A small two-minute diversion.
“Last year, I did an undercover investigation on an orphanage selling babies.
“I bought a new born baby for N2 million.
“I took the baby to NAPTIP.
“I looked after that baby.
“After I handed over the baby to NAPTIP, I sent a representative to go there every month.
“Her birthday, we bought a gift.
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“Christmas same.
“We woke up one day, and NAPTIP shut the door on us.
“I will be honest, it is the first time I have genuinely felt my security compromised.
“I believe the army deliberately – the acting spokesman of the Nigerian Army – deliberately compromised my security by releasing that statement and linking me to oil bunkerers.
“I was in detention.
“I made no mention of oil bunkering, now you’ve gone to tell illegal bunkerers that: ‘Look, this guy was on your trail.’
“If not for the plans I had made before embarking on the story, my organisation (FIJ) would not have known my location.
“That technology enabled my release.
“Otherwise, I could still be in detention.
“Even for two months.”