SSS TO ELENDU: APOLOGIZE TO YAR’ADUA OR BE TORTURED TO DEATH

Detained publisher of Elendureports.com, Jonathan Elendu has been asked to apologize to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua or be tortured to death.

Elendu was taken into custody by the SSS in Nigeria moments after arriving at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the United States last week Saturday on a family visit .

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The online Publisher who was recently transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC detention alongside an unnamed Journalist is currently on hunger.

Sources told pointblanknews.com that the detained Publisher was told by operatives of both the EFCC and the SSS that the only condition by which he can secure his freedom is to apologize to the President.

Elendu who is being accused for sedition has spent one week in detention without formal charges as against the legally required 48 hours for suspects to be charged to court. His lawyers have not been granted access to him.

But Spokesman for the SSS, Mr. Kene Chuks told journalist that Elendu’s arrest and detention has followed due process of the law.

Elendu is one of the online publishers and Journalists marked for arrest for publishing or reporting stories considered to be anti-Yar’Adua.