A 28-year-old staff of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Sampson Oghenedoro, has been arrested and paraded by the Department of State Services, DSS, Niger State command, for allegedly demanding N50 million from the state government to stop him from broadcasting a story on alleged fraudulent activities within the government.
According to P.M NEWS report, Oghenedoro, who works with the NTA in Asaba, Delta state, as a producer/cameraman, operates under the name Fajiro Oliver, was paraded on Monday, 22 September, 2014, in Minna, Niger State capital.
Speaking on the matter, DSS director in Niger State, Dr. Larry Obiagwu, said that the suspect was picked up by his men at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while on his way to Minna to collect the said amount.
DSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar.
Obiagwu informed that Sampson and two others, Stanley Gene and Francis
Arinze, both now at large, co-founded the Secret Reporters Group (SRG) with the
alleged sole objective of blackmailing government officials and heads of
organisations for pecuniary benefits.He said that in July and August the suspect told top officials of the Niger state government on a threat to expose fraudulent activities taking place within the government or be paid N50 million to drop the story.
The DSS director further stated that Sampson and his accomplices did not carry out any investigation on the Niger state government.
However, the suspect, while speaking with journalists, denied knowledge of the alleged demand of N50 million from the state government, saying he was only on his way to Minna to balance his story.
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