The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Abdulwaheed Odusile, has petitioned the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on the incessant attacks on Nigerian journalists by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

Odusile, who wrote the petition on behalf of Nigerian journalists, used the arrest and detention of a Premium Times Reporter, Samuel Ogundipe, as a take-off point.

He said Idris has a long history of hounding Nigerian journalists, adding that this is giving the government a bad image.

Odusile stated that Mr Ogundipe is being detained over the publication of the letter of the IGP, in respect of the police investigation on the DSS siege on National Assembly, adding that the journalist is being held to disclose his source of information, a demand that is against the ethical precepts of Journalism.

Odusile recallsprevious cases of unlawful arrest and illegal detention of Journalists by Nigeria police, and further urged Acting President Osinbajo to call IGP Ibrahim Idris to order to stop his incessant attacks on the media.

Odusile also demands that the detained reporter of Premium Times be released forthwith.