Omirin, who was captured on Thursday, by agents of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri has been discharged, the Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief of the paper, Malam Naziru Mikailu, affirmed the previous evening.
"Indeed, Omirin is back at home with his family and he is robust and generous," Mikailu said.
"He was addressed by the military over a story he created concerning exercises of the Boko Haram radicals," he said.
Omirin who joined the Daily Trust in 2011 and announcing from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was allegedly whisked away to the Nigerian Army 7 Division Maimalari Cantonment central command. The troopers had before raged the Daily Trust Regional Office twice before attacking the NUJ secretariat to capture the columnist.
Observers at the Borno State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Center, where the columnist was captured, said he was picked around 4:40pm when a uniform officer, furnished with a rifle and two others in mufti. The troopers allegedly attacked the press focus and in a split second cuffed the columnist while he was eating, with no clarification.
A source at the NUJ said the fighters had been drawing in Omirin on the telephone since a week ago guaranteeing they needed to meet him for a difference in name advert arrangement.
"One of the officers in mufti entered the press focus while others were inside the military vehicle. He requested Tunji and when Tunji was solicited from knowing about his visitors and how far he had gone with the advert, he said it has been distributed. He was talking on telephone simultaneously with certain individuals and we at that point heard him yelling, considering the name of one the columnists at the press focus that was inside in the NUJ cchairman's office. The journalist left the workplace and met the troopers putting bind on Tunji and the two different fighters in mufti landed from the vehicle alongside another officer in uniform," the source said.
An announcement gave by Bulama Talba, the Chairman of Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ Borno Council, depicted the move by the military as "unfavorable to the activity of free majority rule government and a stomp all over the nobility of expert writers". Peruse the announcement underneath.
"The Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ Borno Council therefore communicates harshness of every one of our individuals over the way faculty of the Nigeria Army came, captured with binds Olatunji Omirin correspondent with Daily trust paper at the Press focus Maiduguri Thursday evening 30 January, 2020 and took him to Maimalari military quarters," the announcement peruses.
"In spite of the fact that he has been discharged night of that day, the Union considers this to be by the military as unfavorable to the activity of free majority rules system and a stomp all over the nobility of expert writers which sadly is rehashing itself after comparable episode happened same time a year ago.
We the individuals from the Pen calling in Borno State have been and will keep on satisfying our obligations of advising the administration and residents on happenings as a method for advancing the wellbeing of all and improve living conditions consistently.
The Union individuals from different mediums have been, with all awareness of other's expectations, completing obligations to place issues in the correct points of view for legitimate plan setting by government and the military and assembling the populace to help projects and tasks that follow, which Olatunji Omirin has been doing astoundingly well.
NUJ feels it is very grievous this is going on now when we as a whole should be in agreement to move our nation from outfitted clash to tranquil goals of questions for improvement to flourish as opposed to playing into the desires of components that advance conflict in the country.
We can improve by calling concerned media associations, NUJ just as different partners for ordinary communications on finding a shared opinion in transit forward past this business as usual."
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