By Saminu Ibrahim
Abuja
Head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom yesterday denounced the killing of a Nigerian photographer, and called for an investigation into the incident.
“I condemn the killing of Ikechukwu Onubogu,” said Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in a press release yesterday.
The statement said the photographer’s body was found in Obosi town, Anambra state on November 15, adding that neither his family nor his colleagues at Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) had seen or heard from Ikechukwu Onubogu since he had left home in the afternoon of November 12.
“The perpetrators of this crime must be brought to justice in order to preserve freedom of expression, enshrined in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
“Governments must also protect journalists so as to prevent bloodshed from depriving the public of its right to access information.”
