DSS Releases ‘Wanted Journalist’ Ahmad Salkida

Detained journalist, Ahmad Salkida, who was declared wanted by Nigerian Army over alleged links to Boko Haram has regained his freedom.

Although officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force jointly briefed journalists at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday about plans to shift the Edo State governorship polls, no comment on Salkida or any other issue was entertained.

However, the BBC Hausa language service reported that Salkida who was detained upon arrival from Dubai on Monday had sent a text message that he was released without conditions within 24 hours of being detained.

“I landed and I was not intercepted on the ‘plane,” the BBC Hausa service quoted the journalist as saying in his text message.

Salkida also said he had been given a “pre-arranged lift” by the authorities, whom he said misunderstood the role of journalists in reporting conflict.

However, the Army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman, has insisted that the journalist and two others “have links with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them.”

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