DSS Arrests NTA Reporter Over Bribery Allegation

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DSS Arrests NTA Reporter Over Bribery Allegation

A 28-year-old staff of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Sampson Oghenedoro, has been arrested and paraded by the Department of State Services, DSS, Niger State command, for allegedly demanding N50 million from the state government to stop him from broadcasting a story on alleged fraudulent activities within the government.
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According to P.M NEWS report, Oghenedoro, who works with the NTA in Asaba, Delta state, as a producer/cameraman, operates under the name Fajiro Oliver, was paraded on Monday, 22 September, 2014, in Minna, Niger State capital.

Speaking on the matter, DSS director in Niger State, Dr. Larry Obiagwu, said that the suspect was picked up by his men at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while on his way to Minna to collect the said amount.

DSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar.
Obiagwu informed that Sampson and two others, Stanley Gene and Francis Arinze, both now at large, co-founded the Secret Reporters Group (SRG) with the alleged sole objective of blackmailing government officials and heads of organisations for pecuniary benefits.