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3 unusual facts about Philip Njaru


Philip Njaru

Refusing to do this, Njaru five days later found his house encircled by armed soldiers, and escaped to Kumba.

His harassment began in May 1997, when the Chief of Post for the Immigration Police in Ekondo-Titi, a town close to the Nigerian border, responded to Njaru's allegations of various corruption by warning Njaru "that he would 'deal with him', should he continue to publish 'unpatriotic' articles, accusing police officers of corruption and alleging that constable P.N.E. had raped a pregnant Nigerian woman".

In September 2008 he travelled to the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway.



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