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October 28, 2019

Police Arrest Webmaster over News Media Content
In what looked like a sting operation, a team of policemen have arrested a professional webmaster, Mr. Adebowale Adekoya over a news story published last year in NewsDigest, an Abuja-based online medium which he provides technical services for

Adekoya, PRNigeria learnt, was arrested in Ikorodu, Lagos while going home and thereafter whisked away to Ilorin Kwara State.

The investigative report, which was titled: “Inside Kwara factory where Indian hemp smoking is ‘legalized,” was authored by Mr. Alfred Olufemi, an award-winning campus journalist from one of the premier universities in the country.

The story was published by NewsDigest with the reporter’s byline on 19 May, 2018.

In the particular report, Hillcrest Agro-Alied Industry, one of the group of companies owned by a former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mrs. Sarah Alade, it was learnt, tolerates the smoking of cigarettes, as well as Indian hemp by workers within its vicinity.

The NewsDigest’s investigative journalist, in his report, further disclosed that workers who are saddled with the responsibility of loading and off-loading processed and unprocessed grains in trucks and other herculean tasks, smoke Indian hemp at will without being sanctioned.

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From the body of the investigative report, the industry refused to respond to Olufemi’s inquiry on the disturbing situation, after he had put several calls and text messages to the industry’s hot line.

Reacting to the worrisome incident, Gidado Yushau, Editor of NewsDigest, expressed rude shock over the arrest of his online newspaper’s webmaster, describing the police’s action as an ‘unbridled illegality.’

Gidado, who maintained that the Police have no justification to illegally arrest and detain Mr. Adekoya over a story which he was not the author, said NewsDigest, as a credible online medium, always upholds and adheres to the tenets and basic ethics of news reportage.

He said:“NewsDigest has over the years served as veritable platform for grooming and sharpening the writing talents of brilliant campus journalists, who publish their articles, news reports and investigative stories on the medium for free. We strongly promote investigative journalism, especially investigations done by gifted student-writers and journalists. One of the results of our advocacy is the particular story, which was ‘beautifully’ authored by Mr. Alfred.

“We totally condemned the unjustifiable action of the law enforcement officers for arresting Adekoya who is for doing his legitimate work of managing our online site and dozens of other media platforms. Besides, he was neither the owner of the website nor the author of the investigative report. Therefore, we are calling on the police to unconditionally release him,” he added.

The police are still keeping the webmaster in their custody in Ilorin after several days of the arrest, in lieu of the owner of the website and the reporter.

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