ASIWE THREATENS SSS WITH COURT ACTION OVER SEIZED TRAVEL DOCUMENTS

The publisher of Huhuonline.com Mr. Emmanuel Emeke Asiwe has served notice on the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) in Nigeria to release his Nigerian Passport and other professional tools seized from him during his arrest.  

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Mr. Asiwe, a Nigerian-American, who practices journalism in the United State, was arrested upon a recent visit to Nigeria by officials of the notorious SSS for alleged seditious publications on the internet.  

Asiwe has said that “the fact that journalists report fraud and corruption is not seditious.  

The SSS had dubiously cautioned journalists being released from its holding cells to “keep hush” and refrain from talking about their plights.  

A clear pattern has now emerged to give credence to the allegation that EFCC and SSS are holding the journalists in Nigeria, so that hit squad from the government agencies can finally get at them.  

The government in Nigeria is also trying to make the private media investors to go financially broke; but why exactly would a country that is not protective of its citizens take what it cannot give?  

The SSS did not only take Asiwe’s Nigerian Passport, they also took his computer, cell phone, and other professional tools.  

The journalist, through his lawyers, has now signaled a definite intention to pursue his rights in the law court. Writing through Festus Keyamo on Tuesday, he said: