ThisDay management has disowned a journalist paraded among the operatives who raided the home of Justice Mary Odili some days ago.
The police paraded the group in Abuja on Thursday, with the journalist, Stanley Nkwazema, among them.
He had claimed to be a Contributing Editor at THISDAY.
He claimed he was a contributing editor at ThisDay.
But the paper said he resigned over 15 years ago as a sports correspondent, with the Managing Director, Bolaji Adebiyi, saying: “However, occasionally, he, like hundreds of other readers of the newspaper, sends for publication articles and analyses and is usually obliged, a privilege THISDAY gives to some of its ex-staff. That does not in any way make him a staff and contributing Editor of THISDAY.
“Since his resignation, THISDAY had at no time contracted Mr. Nkwazema to investigate any story, and we know nothing of his alleged investigation of a story leading to the raid of the residence of Hon. Justice Odili.
“The police authorities and the general public should therefore note that Mr. Nkwazema, whatever may be his involvement in this matter, was not on any reportorial assignment in any shape or form on behalf of THISDAY.”
