{"id":63638,"date":"2018-08-16T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=63638"},"modified":"2018-08-16T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:56:30","slug":"freesamuelogundipe-igp-has-outlived-his-usefulness-aied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/freesamuelogundipe-igp-has-outlived-his-usefulness-aied\/","title":{"rendered":"#FreeSamuelOgundipe: IGP has outlived his usefulness- AIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development (AIED) has called on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to terminate the appointment of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Inspector General of Police over his unending blatant disregard for rule<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of law and somersault to acute totalitarianism over the unlawful arrest<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and detention of Premium Times&#8217; reporter, Samuel Ogundipe.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The organization in a statement on Thursday by its Director of Media and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Publicity, Comrade O&#8217;Seun John, described the continuous incarceration of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the reporter as an assassination of the values of democracy and a stampede<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">on Press Freedom.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We were shocked to receive news of the unlawful detention of Samuel<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ogundipe, one of the finest investigative reporter in Nigeria who has only<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">dedicated his time to revealing the truth at all times.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We find it incomprehensible that this illegality took place at a time the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo &#8211; a senior minister in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">temple of justice &#8211; is making efforts (to) reform the scattered structure<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of the Nigeria Police Force.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This act in itself is nothing other than treason as it undermines the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">office of the Acting President and brings ridicule to the Presidency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We believe strongly in the face of glaring evidences of gross abuse<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">against human rights and total disregard for the tenets of law that the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Inspector General of Police has outlived his usefulness in office and his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">appointment should be terminated without delay,&#8221; the statement said.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development (AIED) has called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to terminate the appointment of the Inspector General of Police over his unending blatant disregard&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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