A journalist with XL106.9fm in Uyo, the capital of Akwa-Ibom State has finally regained his freedom one month after he was detained for allegedly insulting a state Commissioner.
Kufre Carter was detained by the Department of State Security (DSS) for allegedly defaming Dominic Ukpong, the state Commissioner for Health.
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According to a report by theCable, Kufre was released on Wednesday by the DSS despite a court order granting him bail much earlier.
Inibehe Effiong counsel to the journalist said the director general of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi directed the agency to release the journalist as directed by the court.
On Wednesday, 27th May, 2020 at about 9:30 a.m., our client, Kufre Carter, a sport’s journalist with XL 106.9 FM in Uyo regained freedom after spending one month in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS) at the instance and on the instigation of the Akwa Ibom State Government,” the counsel said in a statement.
This came after the Director-General of the SSS, Alhaji Yusuf Bichi, ordered the SSS Command in Akwa Ibom State to comply with the valid and subsisting Order of the Court and release our client.”
He described as false the news that his client apologised to Governor Udom Emmanuel.
Like I told the attorney-general of Akwa Ibom state, Uwemedimo Uwoko Esq., in court when he tried to humiliate me by announcing to the hearing of lawyers in the Bar on 11th May, 2020, that Kufre had apologised to the governor, our client did not apologise to the governor as he claimed and has no reason to do so,” he said.
“I also told Mr Nwoko that it is the governor who must apologise to our client. We remain unwavering in our position.
“Those who clandestinely bargained for apology with the government in an attempt to give the government a soft landing did so in bad faith.”
Kufre is expected to return to court on June 1 to face the charges against him.