Why police declared me wanted – David Hundeyin
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Award winning investigative journalist, Mr David Hundeyin has revealed why the Nigeria Police Force declared him as an accomplice in the trial of whistleblower Isaac Tamunobifiri, aka PIDOM.
While speaking during an interview on News Central Television on Wednesday, Hundeyin said it was not unconnected to truth-telling he embarked in the last years.
According to him, the declaration by the police is an attempts to drag him into the criminal investigation so as to discredit his international refugee status, and put him on an Interpol notice list, among others.
Hundeyin also alleged that in 2023, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) made several attempts to kidnap him from overseas for exposing some top corrupt governmental functionaries, adding that the attempts were in Ghana and Kenya before he finally relocated to the United Kingdom for safety.
“There were several attempts by the National Intelligence Agency to abduct me. They also tried to render me stateless. I even tried to change my country twice. There was an attempt to abduct me from Ghana, then I had to move to Kenya; and when they came for me in Kenya, I ran to the United Kingdom.
“This is part of the price that you have to pay when you decide to say the truth at the time it wasn’t fashionable to do so, especially a regime that sees truth-telling as an affront or threat to it,” he stressed.
Also, while speaking on whether he knew he was declared an accomplice in PIDOM’s trial, Hundeyin said he had always prepared for it, which is why he decided to go public, especially after examining the way the whistleblower X handle reached out to him and the scenarios that made the handler give him access to the account.
“The attempts by those people to hack my devices, which led to me replacing them, made it clear to me that some things were going on that I didn’t want to be a party to. The educated guess that I had then was that this was probably a state security attempt to rope me into some criminal investigation to discredit my international refugee status and go after political opponent journalists and whistleblowers like myself and PIDOM. It is a thing Nigeria, and other countries are likely to do.
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“And just like I guess, truth to form, they named me a suspect in an ongoing criminal investigation for the purpose of creating a narrative basis possibly to put me on an Interpol notice list which makes it more difficult for me to travel essentially to make the world feel like they are closing in on me. And as you know getting hold of David Hundeyin is one of the most important security priorities of the Nigerian establishment. It doesn’t matter that you have terrorists flaunting ransom on TikTok,” he added.
On the status of PIDOM, Hundeyin alleged that the suspect was sprayed with a toxic substance in FCID detention and had been having extreme difficulty breathing since then, stressing, “He cannot breathe properly; you can hear it in his voice. Clearly, something is wrong with him.”
Bristol is facing serious charges including money laundering, cybercrime, and the illegal dissemination of classified documents.
He is currently being held at Kuje Correctional Centre following his arraignment at the Federal High Court in Abuja after spending 28 days in police custody.
