The current travails of a legal practitioner, Chinedu Agu, in the hands of the Imo State Police Command once again highlight the troubling use of state power to silence dissenting voices, Davidson Iriekpen writes
What legal practitioner Chinedu Agu is currently facing at the hands of Imo State government officials, over an issue that should ordinarily spur the government to act in the people’s interest, exposes how intolerant some state governments have recently become.
Upon his return from the annual convention of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Enugu, Agu did an innocuous travelogue in which he compared Imo State and Enugu State.