Yakubu Fagge, Mohammed Gama. Photo: Wazobia FM
Three Nigerian radio presenters working with Wazobia FM, Kano have been arrested by the Nigerian Police for allegedly inciting the killing of 9 health workers on Friday, February 8, 2013.
Confirming the arrest to Channels TV, the state police commissioner, Ibrahim Idris said the three journalists – Mohammed Gama, Yakubu Fagge and an intern were taken in custody ‘for saying on a radio show that polio immunisations were an anti-Islam western conspiracy to cause infertility in women’.
The statement was allegedly made on Hausa Programme Sandar Girma two days before the nine female workers administering the polio immunization vaccines were killed.
The vaccinators were shot dead in two separate attacks. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but it is well known that the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have openly condemned Western Education.
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