Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has described his being declared wanted by the Nigerian security authorities as the price he has to pay for telling the truth, especially when it’s not fashionable.
Hundeyin said his situation could even be worse than being declared wanted as, according to him, other attempts had been made in the past to render him stateless.
The investigative journalist spoke on Wednesday while fielding questions on News Central TV.
The statement comes after police high command said its operatives are trailing him and his accomplice, one Michael Temidayo Alade for allegedly leaking some classified documents, which it said is against the Official Secret Act.
Police explained that the duo are accomplices of Bristol Isaac popularly known as PIDOMNigeria’s on X, who was arrested recently by the operatives attached to the Nigerian Police National Cybercrime Centre.
However, Hundeyin, who remained undaunted while speaking on national television, alleged that there was a high level attempt by the National Intelligence Agency to illegally abduct him internationally from a foreign country.
He said: “I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine. As you rightly said this isn’t the first time the Nigerian State is coming after me in this manner.
“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.”