A journalist with Radio Nigeria, Pyramid FM Kano, Muktar Dahiru, in Kano has been remanded in prison for sharing media content which is believed to be critical of Kano State government officials which include Governor Abba Yusuf and Lamido Sanusi who was reinstated as Emir.
Dahiru, was arrested by the police and remanded in a correctional facility on Thursday over allegation of sharing Facebook content which is considered offensive by the state government.
In a series of posts, Dahiru shared a broadcast audio interview with an opposition politician who accused Govenor Yusuf of corruption.
On the audio, the opposition politician challenged the governor to give federal anti-corruption agencies the free hand to probe the Novomed scandal instead of the state anti-corruption agency.
Novomed Pharmaceutical, which is owned by Musa Kwankwakso, a younger brother of the former governor, Rabiu Kwankwakso, is under investigation over a contract with the state government
In another video post, Dahiru shared a radio programme by the governor’s political adviser, Anas Abba-Dala, who speculated that Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, is not a Nigerian.
In the programme, Abba-Dala alleged that the Vice President betrayed his political godfather, Ali-Modu Sheriff, adding that it was Shettima’s relatives who invaded a mosque in Kano and murdered an Islamic cleric, Ja’afar Adam, in 2007 and which Dahiru captioned the post: ”This is beyond politics.”
Also in another post, Dahiru shared an audio programme in which one person accused Sanusi Lamido of pretentiousness by portraying himself as sympathetic to the poor while living an expensive lifestyle like a woman.
The political adviser to the governor, Abba-Dala, complained against Dahiru to the police that in a Facebook post, called him an illiterate and that he tarnished his image by stating he impregnated a woman out of wedlock.
Meanwhile, the magistrate, Ummah Kurawa, ordered Dahiru be remanded in a correctional facility until 3 September for a bail application hearing.
