I Am Lucky To Be Alive - VOA Reporter Grace Alheri Abdu Arrested By Nigerian Army In Oyigbo Says

Administration Producer of the Voice of America (VOA) Grace Alheri Abdu, has said she was fortunate to be alive after soldiers held her in Oyigbo, Oyigbo Local Government Area (LGA), Rivers state, for five hours as she paid a media analytical visit to the unstable zone. 

Andu was captured and confined by the officers at about 2pm Saturday till about 7pm when she recaptured opportunity after a few claimed mediations by key partners. 

The VOA character who said the troopers who held her were "all flushed and inebriated", portrayed that, "They advised me to thank my God that I was a female writer, and not from any of the media houses situated in Port Harcourt else they would have squandered me and that nothing would occur." 

The troopers had purportedly blamed her for running live transmission of her task in Oyigbo, just as communicating military activities in the unpredictable zone live without authorization. 

She denied the charges, guaranteeing that as before long showing up Oyigbo, dropped off by a connection, likewise a columnist, she strolled down to a gathering of troopers by the Oyigbo Expressway, and presented herself. 

She further guaranteed she looked for their authorization to snap photograph shots of the consumed Oyigbo Police Station with one of the officers reacting that since it was a police headquarters, it was just the police that could concede her solicitation or something else. 

The warriors were said to have been incensed when, in disobedience of their alert, the VOA journalist had moved to the zone of the consumed police headquarters, and with no single police officer immediately, clicked her camera on the scene. 

Mediations that prompted her delivery remember an assertions from the United States Embassy for Nigeria coordinated at the Nigerian military chain of command, those from the West African Journalists' Association, WAJA, unfamiliar and nearby rights gatherings. 

Representative of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj Charles Ekeocha couldn't be gone after response to the improvement at the hour of documenting this report. 

Rights dissident, Enefaa Georgewill, one of the people who advertised Abdu's capture said his Rivers Civil Society Organizations would not bow to "tyranny".