Nigeria Secret Police, DSS Detains Radio Worker For Playing ‘Offensive Song On Air
Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services, DSS, has arrested and detained a radio worker in Imo State, Casmir Uzomah, for the past two months without trial.
Uzomah, a staff member of the Orient Radio-Television Station, which is managed by the Imo State Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), was reportedly arrested for playing a song considered “offensive” to the Governor of the state, Hope Uzodinma, via the station.
IBC is a media outfit owned by the State Government and Uzomah works in the technical department of the station.
Uzomah’s wife, Onyinyechi, who spoke to the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), on the plight of her husband and degrading treatment he has been subjected since his arrest on August 4, appealed to Nigerians and international community to prevail on the government of Imo and DSS to free him.
“They should please free my husband. I am not working, and my children need to go to school. They said he played a song that was abusing the governor. I have not seen him since then,” Mrs Onyinyechi, a mother of five, said.
