The demand was contained in a statement by OPAN President, Austyn Ogannah, and General Secretary, Daniel Elombah.
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The Nigerian Police will on Thursday (tomorrow) arraign Timothy Elombah and Daniel Elombah over allegations of terrorism and cyber crime.
OPAN, in a statement by its President, Austyn Ogannah, called on the police to withdraw the “spurious charges” without delay and stop harassing journalists for doing their constitutionally backed assignments
Justice Ajoke Adepoju in her ruling directed the Nigeria Police to release Elombah within 24 hours with a condition of one reasonable surety with N500,000 in like sum
The men who struck around 5am on the new year day climbed over the gate with their ladder and ransacked the entire house. At the end of the operation, six adult male members of the family including myself were handcuffed, herded into a rickety bus and driven to the SARS Nnewi office where we were briefly detained.
However, the Editor of the online newspaper, Tim Elombah, was still being held as at press time.
According to the report, the UK-based publisher was arrested in the wee hours of Monday