The Director Common of the Division of State Providers, Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, has been honoured by the Worldwide Press Institute, Nigeria, for taking immediate actions to proper the wrongs within the society, particularly towards journalists.
Ajayi was described as a listening head of a delicate authorities company who has listened to interventions by the IPI and corrected wrongdoings identified to him.
The honour was bestowed on the DSS boss on the IPI Nigeria’s unveiling of the E-book of Infamy on Tuesday.
The revealing was carried out by Vice President Kashim Shettima on the Second Convention and Annual Common Assembly of IPI Nigeria.
In the meantime, IPI Nigeria listed the Inspector Common of Police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun, and two governors in its E-book of Infamy for his or her unfavorable attitudes in direction of journalists.
The 2 governors, on the record of three individuals to first go into the E-book of Infamy, had been these of Akwa Ibom State, Imo Eno; and Niger State, Mohammed Umar Bago.
Whereas Egbetokun was mentioned to have did not heed the calls by IPI to cease the arbitrary arrests of journalists nationwide by his operatives, Eno barred the crew of Channels TV from overlaying the actions of the Akwa Ibom State Authorities Home.
Bago was mentioned to have ordered the closure of Badeggi FM, a non-public radio station.
Regardless of the attraction by IPI Nigeria for reconsideration of their choices, which had been past their powers, each Bago and Eno refused to budge.
Prime on the record of interventions credited to the DSS DG had been the removing from the federal government’s watchlist of the Government Director of the Worldwide Press Centre, Lanre Arogundade, after 40 years.
Ajayi was additionally credited with the short launch of journalists wrongly arrested by the key police.
Responding to the place of the IPI Nigeria, as introduced by its President, Musikilu Mojeed, through the unveiling of the E-book of Infamy, Vice President Shettima mentioned he would attain out to all these accused of getting breached the rights of journalists.
He invited Mojeed to journey with him to Akwa Ibom State, the place he can be visiting quickly, to resolve the difficulty Eno had with Channels TV.
He additionally promised to achieve out to the IGP and Bago, whom he described as his pal.