{"id":67282,"date":"2022-12-03T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=67282"},"modified":"2022-12-05T04:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:34:40","slug":"journalist-ayodele-samuel-detained-in-taraba-despite-meeting-bail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/journalist-ayodele-samuel-detained-in-taraba-despite-meeting-bail-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Ayodele Samuel Detained In Taraba Despite Meeting Bail Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>* Fighting for teachers owed 14 months\u2019 salaries is among our \u2018offence\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*State govt angry over report that it \u2018plans\u2019 to sell state\u2019s liaison office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Publisher of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarabatruthandfact.com.ng\">Taraba Truth and Facts<\/a> newspaper and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramiranews.com\/rock-fm-jalingo-uniting.\">Rock FM<\/a> 92.3 Jalingo, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taraba_State\">Taraba State<\/a>, Oloye Ayodele Samuel, has been remanded in the custody of the Taraba State Police Command in Jalingo despite meeting bail conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Ayodele pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him at a Magistrate Court in Taraba on Tuesday 29<sup>th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lance Momodu, a staffer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarabatruthandfact.com.ng\">Taraba Truth and Facts<\/a>, said the conditions for Samuel\u2019s release were N10 million and two Jalingo resident sureties with landed properties worth N5m each, which he met instantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bail conditions were met. It is quite unclear how the publisher has been remanded, but what is certain is the treacherous abuse of power by the state government,\u201d Momodu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a beyond shameful situation and we hope that the government have a quick change of heart and obey the court verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an absolute disappointment that a government seeks to cripple press freedom or, at the very least, freedom of expression in this modern time,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The publisher had earlier released a statement about plans of the Taraba State government to arrest him before he was arraigned in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement earlier released, he said, \u201cThe Taraba State Government is angry with some of our reports,\u201d specifically the report where the newspaper stated that Governor Darius Ishaku had \u201cplans to sell the Taraba State liaison office\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that he was arrested by the police for \u201cinciting the public against the governor and defamation of character\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Wednesday, we took up the plight of teachers who were owed 14 months salaries on a programme I anchored. I was told it infuriated the governor, and they started looking for our past reports in the newspaper, Taraba Truth and Facts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had his youth service in Taraba State after his graduation from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos and returned to establish a newspaper to practice his profession in the north eastern state.<\/p>\n<p>Late 2021, he secured a license to run the first private FM station in Taraba State, named Rock FM which began transmission early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Fighting for teachers owed 14 months\u2019 salaries is among our \u2018offence\u2019 *State govt angry over report that it \u2018plans\u2019 to sell state\u2019s liaison office &nbsp; Publisher of Taraba Truth and Facts newspaper and CEO of Rock FM 92.3 Jalingo, Taraba State, Oloye Ayodele Samuel, has been remanded in the custody of the Taraba State &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10073,10072,10071,10070],"coauthors":[2393],"class_list":["post-67282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-ayodele-samuel-oloye","tag-dairus-ishaku","tag-rock-fm-jalingo","tag-taraba-tuth-and-facts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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