The embattled journalist was expelled from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for asking visiting Chadian President, Idriss Derby, a question which authority found to be embarrassing.
Musa had asked the visiting President to explain the relationship between the multinational task force fighting in Lake Chad and the South African mercenaries fighting with them.
Derby simply responded that he had no information concerning mercenaries from South Africa.
Shortly after the visiting President left, Musa was invited into the CSO’s office and his tag was withdrawn.
Security operatives thereafter drove him in a vehicle out of the fore-court of the President’s office through the Service Chiefs’ gate.
When he told the operatives that some of his working tools were still inside the Press Gallery where journalists operate from, the operatives led him to the hall to retrieve his belongings and led him out of the Villa again.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, was said to have assured a delegation of State House correspondents who met him on the matter that the issue would be resolved appropriately.
As at the time of filing this report, however, Musa’s accreditation has not yet been restored.
Learnt from Punchng online
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