By Saidu Idris
365daily – The management of Thisday Newspapers, has disowned a journalist, Stanley Nkwazema, who was paraded by the police for being allegedly involved in the raid of the residence of Mrs. Mary Odili, a Supreme Court Justice.
Nkwazema was before this disclaimer, assumed to be working with Thisday, as he reportedly told the police.
But a statement on Thursday, November 11, 2021, by Thisday’s Managing Editor (Print and Digital) Bolaji Adebiyi, disclosed that the embattled journalist resigned from Thisday 15 years ago and was not representing the media organisation in any way.
According to the statement, “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 statement read further: “The attention of the management of THISDAY NEWSPAPERS has been drawn to the news making the rounds that Mr. Stanley Nkwazema, one of those suspected to have invaded the home of Justice Mary Odili claimed to be a staff and Contributing Editor of THISDAY.
“Contrary to his claim, Mr. Nkwazema is neither a Staff of THISDAY nor a Contributing Editor. He was a Sports Correspondent and resigned more than 15 years ago.
“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.
.”The police authorities and the general public should, therefore, note that Mr. Nkwazema, whatever may be his involvement in this matter, was not acting on behalf of THISDAY in any shape or form.”