Two journalists based in Delta State have been arraigned at a magistrate court sitting in Asaba over defamation of character.
The two journalists, Joe Ogbodu, Managing Editor of BIGPEN Online, and Prince Amour Udemude, an investigative Journalist, on Wednesday took a new twist with Udemude informing the court how he was forced by a police prosecutor, Theresa Okpor, to write a statement dictated by her. The journalists were arrested in October 2019 by the police following a petition by one Sam Ogrih, alleging defamation and were arraigned for misdemeanour to wit defamatory at the Magistrate court in Asaba, the state capital.
Udemude and Ogbodu had in October 2019 reported a bloody crisis by some youths who go by the codename “freedom fighters” at Uzere community, Isoko South Local Government Area of the state over N20 million largesse from the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company.
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