The International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has listed the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, and two Governors in its Book of Infamy.
The Book of Infamy was unveiled by Vice President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday at the opening of the Institute’s two-day annual Conference and Annual General Meeting in Abuja.
News sources notes that the IPI Nigeria’s “Bood of Infamy” on media repression is the first of its kind in Africa.
The two governors, who made the list of the first three officials to get documented in the Book of Infamy, were those of Akwa Ibom State, Imo Eno; and Niger State, Mohammed Umar Bago.
While Egbetokun was said to have failed to heed the calls by IPI to stop the arbitrary arrests of Journalists nationwide by his operatives, Eno barred the crew of Channels TV from covering the activities of the Akwa Ibom State Government House.
For Bago, he ordered the closure of Badeggi FM, a private radio station in Minna, Niger State capital.
Despite appeals by IPI Nigeria for reconsideration of their decisions, which they had no powers to so take, both Bago and Eno refused to back down.
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