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A RTN TV journalist was this afternoon arrested in Wajir. Siyad Ismail, a correspondent with the Somali TV station was arrested for exposing the deplorable state of the Wajir County General Hospital. It is reported that the area DCI, under strict instructions from county officials, confiscated Ismail's laptop, camera

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A RTN TV journalist was this afternoon arrested in Wajir. Siyad Ismail, a correspondent with the Somali TV station was arrested for exposing the deplorable state of the Wajir County General Hospital. It is reported that the area DCI, under strict instructions from county officials, confiscated Ismail's laptop, camera

Mar 21
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Boi Boi

@yobos · Mar 21

A RTN TV journalist was this afternoon arrested in Wajir.

Siyad Ismail, a correspondent with the Somali TV station was arrested for exposing the deplorable state of the Wajir County General Hospital.

It is reported that the area DCI, under strict instructions from county officials, confiscated Ismail's laptop, camera and mobile phone.

They also took the journalist's fingerprints.

Details on this story have been scanty but we shall update our readers immediately an update on the same is provided.

Here are photos of Ismael locked up in the cells below.

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