{"id":52827,"date":"2024-08-01T19:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/?p=52827"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:13:20","slug":"statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/statement\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Management at Radio Ndarason as well as Okapi Consulting, are grateful and thankful for the release from prison of 9 members of its Maiduguri team. Journalists and office workers have been released without charge and without condition after having been arrested this morning while reporting on protests in Nigeria\u2019s Borno State. This is a victory for media freedom and freedom of expression. We thank Nigerian authorities for recognising the vital role played by professional journalists and, in particular, the vital role played by Ndarason journalists who report to the more than 7,5 million Kanuri, Kanembu and Buduma listeners throughout the Lake Chad Basin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Smith<br \/>\nExecutive Director Okapi Consulting<br \/>\nProject Director Radio Ndarason Internationale<br \/>\nAugust 1., 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>La direction de Radio Ndarason et Okapi Consulting sont reconnaissants de la lib\u00e9ration de 9 membres de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe de Maiduguri. Les journalistes et les employ\u00e9s de bureau ont \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9s sans inculpation et sans condition apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9s ce matin alors qu&#8217;ils couvraient les manifestations dans l&#8217;\u00c9tat de Borno au Nigeria. Il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;une victoire pour la libert\u00e9 des m\u00e9dias et la libert\u00e9 d&#8217;expression. Nous remercions les autorit\u00e9s nig\u00e9rianes de reconna\u00eetre le r\u00f4le vital jou\u00e9 par les journalistes professionnels et, en particulier, le r\u00f4le vital jou\u00e9 par les journalistes de Ndarason qui rendent compte aux plus de 7,5 millions d&#8217;auditeurs Kanuri, Kanembu et Buduma dans tout le bassin du lac Tchad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Smith<br \/>\nDirecteur ex\u00e9cutif Okapi Consulting<br \/>\nDirecteur de projet Radio Ndarason Internationale<br \/>\n1er ao\u00fbt 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management at Radio Ndarason as well as Okapi Consulting, are grateful and thankful for the release from prison of 9 members of its Maiduguri team. Journalists and office workers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":52821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52829,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827\/revisions\/52829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}