Police detectives on Tuesday stormed the press centre of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and arrested Mr. Matthew Omonigho, a journalist with the Daily Post Online.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) the police detectives also took hold of three members of the Warri Correspondents Chapel of the Delta State Council of the NUJ.
The arrested journalists are Mr. Matthew Omonigho of the Daily Post Online, Mr Edeki Egafe of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Francis Sadhere of Business Day and Mr Christopher Odomhe, a freelance journalist.
The reason for the arrest of the journalists was not disclosed.
It was learnt that the police operatives had stormed the Press Centre of the Warri NUJ along Gbiaye Street in Warri at about 3:45pm to pick Omonigho for undisclosed reasons.
Following Omonigho’s arrest, the leadership of the NUJ in Warri immediately dispatched Edeki, Sadhere and Christopher to visit the Warri Area Command to ascertain the offence for which Omonigho was arrested.
On getting there, the officers detained the three journalists who had visited the station to clarify issues relating to the arrest of the Daily Post’s reporter.
The mobile sets of the four journalists were alleged to have been confiscated by the operatives.
It was gathered that the detectives were from the Force Headquarters. They declined to give reasons for the arrest of the four journalists.
The chairman of the Warri NUJ, Mr. Okies Vicky, was not allowed to see the four arrested journalists till 9pm when this report was being filed.