Polio Workers Shooting: Police Arrest, Detain 3 Wazobia FM Staff In Kano

IGPThree staff of Wazobia FM in Kano state, have been detained by the Police who are investigating the contents of a programme they aired last week.

The detained members of staff according to head of station, Salisu Bello Kankarofi, are: Mohammed Suleiman Gama (Head of programmes), Yakubu Musa Fagge (Presenter) and Mubarak Muhamad Sani (Reporter).

The trio were invited to the Bompai Police HQ around 9:30am on Sunday for questioning and have remained in detention since then. Also in detention is Abubakar Rabo, former director of Kano Films and Censorship Board.

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Trouble started after the station aired a programme on alleged fraud in the polio vaccination exercise a few days before the attack on health workers in two local government areas, leading to the death of 9 of them.

The police are trying to establish a connection between the contents of the said programme and the shooting of the health workers.

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