Why Police Declared Me PIDOM’s Accomplice – David Hundeyin

An investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has explained why the Nigeria Police Force declaration implicated him as an accomplice in the trial of whistleblower Isaac Tamunobifiri, aka PIDOM.

Hundeyin, speaking in an interview with News Central Television on Wednesday, said it was not unrelated to truth-telling in an administration that regards it as an attack.

He alleged that desperate attempts had been earlier made to involve him in a criminal investigation to damage his international refugee status and place him on an Interpol notice list, among other things.

The journalist further alleged that in 2023, the National Intelligence Agency attempted to kidnap him from abroad for exposing the wrongdoings of several key government officials, with the attempts taking place in Ghana and Kenya before he fled to the United Kingdom for protection.

“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.

When asked if he knew he was declared an accomplice in PIDOM’s trial, Hundeyin said he had always planned for it, which is why he chose to go open to the public, especially after investigating how the whistleblower X handle contacted him and the scenarios that led the handler to grant 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 opponents, journalists and whistleblowers like myself and PIDOM. It is a thing Nigeria, and other countries are likely to do.

“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 situation of PIDOM, Hundeyin claimed that the suspect was sprayed with a harmful substance in FCID confinement and has had great trouble breathing since then.

“He cannot breathe properly; you can hear it in his voice. Clearly, something is wrong with him.”

THE WHISTLER reports that Hundeyin, one Michael Alade and Bristol Isaac, aka PIDOMNigeria’s accomplices were accused of leaking classified and restricted documents, fraud, sedition, and tax evasion, among others.