ALLEGATION OF RITUAL MURDER AGAINST VANGUARD NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER’S WIFE: NIGERIA POLICE TURNS TABLE AGAINST HEROIC INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST

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Officials of the administration in Nigeria may have concluded plans to perpetuate another disgraceful judicial murder. The Nigeria Police, Saturday morning, effected the arrest of Mr. Steve Ogwu-Chinuwa, the investigative reporter who has for long been on a crusade for the prosecution of Mrs. Oyindamola Amuka, now at large, and other co-conspirators for the ritual killing of a yet to be identified 14-year old boy.

According to eye-witness account Mr. Steve Ogwu-Chinuwa was picked up very early on Saturday by a team of Police operatives.

He was immediately taken to the Ikorodu Divisional Police Station, awaiting processing before being eventually transferred to Panti, where notorious criminals are usually kept.

The journalist had allegedly acted on a tip on the suspicious regular visits to a shrine ran by a gang of Islamic cleric ritualists in Ikorodu.

His background checks on the “particular madam” had revealed that the woman, was no other than Oyindamola, the Owo Ondo State born wife of Mr. Pemu Sam-Amuka, Publisher of Nigeria’s Vanguard Newspaper.

Mr. Steve Ogwu-Chinuwa was said to have kept regular vigil and surveillance at subsequent visits of Mrs. Amuka and was shocked, allegedly to witness the woman taking part on the gory beheading of the unknown fourteen year old boy.

Steve who was a member of the Nigeria Police and had to resign to join journalism on account of his dislike for the way Police PR usually handover “processed” information to crime beat reporters, was the one who purportedly used his cell phone to call-in the Police while the crime was said to still be in progress.

And after he allegedly rebuffed Police attempt at sweeping the matter under the carpet after some police officials had allegedly collected a bribe of ₦4m, Steve had rejected (₦1m) One million naira bribe and continued to go after the story.

He had written several letters to Senior Police Official so that guilty corrupt Policemen could be disciplined while he strongly called for the prosecution of Oyindamola Amuka and her cohorts.

But Sam Amuka is a powerful Nigerian, he is the Grand Patron of Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria and when Steve hit town with the scoop, every editor refused him audience.

The Police did not press any charge against him, until the dastardly crime was exposed by pointblanknews.com in December, 2008.

After the publication of the story, Amuka with some associates, including some journalists at the Vanguard newspaper stable started blackmailing and threatening pointblanknews.com.

With the arrest of Steve, there is bound to be rippling effect on the eroding of trust and cooperation for the Police in the Nigerian civil society.

It is believed that the arrest of Steve could be a decoy by the government to finally open an avenue for arresting the several journalist foot soldiers of pointblanknews.com