The price David Hundeyin, a Nigerian investigative journalist, has paid for speaking the truth—especially when it’s unfashionable—is that the country’s security services have proclaimed him wanted.
Hundeyin claimed that because there had previously been attempts to make him a stateless person, his circumstances might even be worse than being declared wanted.
Speaking on Wednesday, the investigative journalist answered queries on News Central TV.
The police high command made the announcement after claiming that its agents are pursuing him and his accomplice, Michael Temidayo Alade, for allegedly violating the Official Secret Act by disclosing certain confidential material.
The pair, according to police, are PIDOMNigeria’s accomplices, Bristol Isaac, who was recently apprehended by agents from the Nigerian Police National Cybercrime Center.
How the unfazed Hundeyin said during his speech on national television that the National Intelligence Agency was making a concerted effort to kidnap him illegally from abroad.
“I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine,” he declared. The Nigerian State has already pursued me in this way, as you correctly pointed out.
“As recently as last year there was a high level attempt that was made by the National Intelligence Agency to illegally abduct me internationally from a foreign country.
“So it’s been worse than this. And other attempts have been made also to render me stateless. And in the past year alone I have had to change country twice. So when the attempt was made to illegally abduct me from Ghana I had to fled to Kenya. And when they deemed it to render me stateless in Kenya then I had to move to the UK.
“This is part of the course and this is the price that you have to pay, unfortunately when, as I said earlier, you decide to tell the truth, when it’s not fashionable to do so. And when you’re doing so in the face of an establishment or a regime that sees truth telling as a direct affront or a threat to it.
So it’s what it’s.”
