Fisayo Soyombo, founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has said everything he told army personnel while he was being interrogated was leaked to suspected oil thieves.
Gatekeepers News reports that Soyombo said this during an interview on Arise Television on Saturday.
The investigative journalist was detained for three days by 6 Division of the army in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state, and was released on Friday.
According to Soyombo; he was released because news of his arrest circulated on social media.
Soyombo said he doesn’t trust any public institution in the country because of his experience investigating stories as an undercover journalist.
He said, “How can you grill me at the 6 division and everything I told you, the illegal bunkerers were telling me. Every single thing.”
“The real grouse of the army is that one, I did not carry them along. I would not deny that I have low trust for Nigerian public institutions.”
“A small two-minute diversion. Last year, I did an undercover investigation on an orphanage selling babies. I bought a new born baby for N2 million. I took the baby to NAPTIP, I looked after that baby.”
“After I handed over the baby to NAPTIP, I sent a representative to go there every month. Her birthday, we bought a gift, Christmas same. We woke up one day and NAPTIP shut the door on us.”
The pioneer editor of TheCable alleged that two of his mobile phones were stolen by one of the soldiers who detained him.
