Mbu Detains AIT Reporter, Anakwe for Calling Him Controversial

Mbu Detains AIT Reporter, Anakwe for Calling Him Controversial

The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 7, Abuja, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, has arrested the presenter of Matters Arising on Africa Independent Television (AIT), Mr. Amaechi Anakwue, for describing him as controversial.
Anakwue was said to have described the former Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP) as controversial in one of his presentations earlier this week, but this did not go down well with the officer.
The reference, it was gathered, might not be unconnected with Mbu’s activities in Rivers State, where he was accused of carrying out orders from the presidency against the state governor and allies.
Anakwue, who was said to have been invited early thursday by Mbu for questioning, was immediately arrested and detained after he was harassed by the police.
As at the writing of this report, the journalist was still being held by the AIG despite calls from different quarters for his release.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), AIT chapter and the management of the television station had called for the immediate and unconditional release of Anakwue.
All efforts to get the AIG and his Public Relations Officer (PRO) for comment proved abortive as both officers refused to see or pick several calls put to them by our source