The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi has reacted to the recent arrest of journalists in the country.
No fewer than five journalists have been arrested by the police over one allegation or the other in the last few months.
Some journalists that have been arrested by the police include Segun Olatunji, a former editor of FirstNews, who was abducted in Lagos, Daniel Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Jamil Mabai, a freelance journalist, and Madu Onuorah, publisher and editor-in-chief of Globalupfront Newspaper arrested by the Enugu state government.
Some of them are still being held by the police across the country.
The development has raised serious posers on the intimidation of journalists by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, and the protection of their rights as guaranteed by the constitution.
Some have even accused the administration pointedly of trying to silent the media using the police as a tool to intimidate them.
Speaking on the abduction of journalists on Friday, Fagbemi said no person will be held against the law.
He said the federal government will not bend the law regardless of who is concerned. “You don’t rationalise justice, you dispense it. If people deserve to be released, you release them,” the minister said.
