DSS BREAKS SILENCE ON ALLEGED ARREST OF CHANNELS TV PRESENTERS
The Department of State Service (DSS) has dismissed reports that its operatives arrested two presenters of Channels Television.
Eons Intelligence gathered that the secret police denied this in a statement signed Peter Afunanya, the DSS spokesperson.
“The attention of the DSS has been drawn to news making the rounds in some sections of the media that its operatives earlier today (26th August, 2021) arrested two (2) journalists of Channels Television,” the statement read.
“This is false and misleading. Fake news peddlers should shun the act. ”
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Reports had emerged on Thursday that the DSS arrested Chamberlain Usoh and Kayode Okikiolu over an interview they conducted on the private television.
A source had disclosed that the station only received a query from the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, a move the source describe as a plot to intimidate Channels TV.
Usoh and Okikiolu, according to reports, were invited to the NBC’s in Abuja on Thursday.
NBC is not comfortable with the interview Channels TV had with Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and a former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi.
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