Nigerian Investigative Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo is presently at the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja where he is being questioned on links to ‘an investigation they are conducting’.
Soyombo gave the update via his verified Facebook page on Monday morning.
“I have just arrived at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, to honour an invitation from the Monitoring Unit of the Inspector General of Police. They say my “name and phone number featured in an investigation” they are conducting,” Soyombo wrote.
“The decision to come was straightforward: I am a law-abiding citizen who has committed no crime unless journalism is one. If there is no update on this handle by dusk, it means I have been unjustly detained. I will be surrendering my devices now.”
Soyombo, the founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), is best known, among other things, for being the Nigerian undercover journalist who spent five days in a police cell as a suspect and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system in 2019.
